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  Power Products > P1000 Power Plant P1000 More Info Starting at just $3,495.00!  Big amps as well as big systems need big power. Not just any power, but clean, regulated and balanced power specifically tailored for the correct application. Without this level of sophistication, the truth behind the much used (but often ignored) statement “it’s only as good as the source” will never be as evident. As your equipment demands more power from your home, the quality of that power goes downhill in a nearly proportional manner. With the introduction of the P1000 Power Plant your power quality worries are “out the window”. Regardless of how bad your home's power is, the P1000 delivers enough pure, clean, balanced and regulated power to satisfy almost any system’s demands and still have an adequate reserve left over. In fact, the P1000 doesn’t care what the quality of power feeding it is: it will provide the  finest laboratory grade balanced AC power on the planet, regardless of what goes in. With a Power Plant we can change the old adage to read: 'garbage in' equals 'purity out'.An awesome 1000 watt AC regenerator Are there competing products on the market? Yes, certainly, but not one of them is a regenerator. Some add and subtract from the the power to help clean, some filter, some magnetically isolate, but none regenerate balanced power. Unlike filters, isolation transformers and non-balanced output AC correction devices, the P1000 is a true AC regenerator. The P1000 is the world’s largest AC regenerator that produces a perfect super symmetrical balanced AC output. No other device in the world produces 1000 watts of pure, balanced, regulated AC. None. A brief explanation of regenerated power What comes out of your home’s AC wall socket is supposed to be a steady, pure sinewave voltage that is free of noise and harmonics. Unfortunately, no one in any country actually receives this. In fact, what you get out of the wall is noisy power, full of unwanted harmonics and varying in voltage from as low as 105 to as high as 130 depending on where you live and the time of day. How does this affect your audio video system? Noise and harmonics will increase the noise floor of an audio system and cause the setup to have a bright and hard glare associated with each musical note. With video, the noise can reduce three dimensionality of the picture and lower apparent color saturation. Low and fluctuating voltage levels out of the wall will reduce a power amplifiers total output capability and decrease the brightness of projectors, CRT’s and plasmas in a video setup. Perhaps worse is the lack of regulation in your home. Even if your power company could provide rock solid  voltages to your home (which they don't) your relatively small gauge house wiring alone will cause voltage swings of up to 10% when your power amplifier or video system draws high power, thus reducing the unit’s performance.A true AC regenerator takes the AC power out of the wall, converts it to DC voltage (like a battery), then re-manufactures perfectly clean, harmonic and noise free AC that you can then use to power your equipment. PS Audio’s Power Plants are the only true AC regenerators in the world and are designed specifically for the AV industry to provide some of the lowest noise, cleanest power on the planet. If you’re interested in “the real deal” this is it. Other schemes such as motorized variacs and LC filtering can neither respond to dynamic changes such as those presented by music or video, or are limited in what they can produce in terms of alternate waveforms. The P1000 is a tour de force of power delivery Building a beautiful new Power Plant that would deliver massive amounts of pure power to almost any load, operate in a cool, safe and reliable manner was an interesting challenge for the PS Engineering team that designed it. The chassis was based on the original and Classic P600 Power Plant and the front panel sculpted after the Classic 250 power amplifier. To this beautiful metal sculpture, we added one of the biggest transformers we’ve ever seen, bar none – and lots of new features to create the world’s largest AC regenerator. New to this model:
Creating an accurate power meter is no simple task! In the original Power Plant series the watt meter on the front panel represented the simplest expression of power we were able to calculate at the time of its design. Basically, we measured the current and the voltage and then multiplied the two together to give  you a close approximation of the wattage produced by the Power Plant. This method is accurate only for very simple loads like a light bulb. More complex loads like power amplifiers and preamplifiers were not accurately measured. To accurately measure the true power required by a group of equipment, you need to perform a lot of very complex math operations using double delta sigma processors and a whole bunch of computations. The new power meter in the P1000 leaps forward with a better than 10% accurate metering circuit that continually measures power and then displays either in watts, or the percentage of power the P1000 has left to provide. You can also read and adjust the output voltage of the P1000 from the meter and front panel control systems. Balanced power All Power Plants have balanced power on their outputs. Balanced power is essential to achieving the very best of sonics and visuals. What comes out of your home's wall socket is unbalanced power. This means there is a hot and a neutral: where the 'hot' side of the AC plug has the 120 volts and the 'neutral' side of the plug is the return with no voltage. In a balanced power system, both legs are 'hot' and each leg out of phase with the other. The advantages of balanced power are many and include lower noise, less hum, lower harmonic distortion. At the end of the day, much better performance. Don't be fooled: no power conmditioner on the market today produces balanced AC. There are some line isolation transformers that produce balanced power put they are not regulated and they do not correct for waveform distortion like a true regenerator. There are some correction devices but they do not produce balanced power either. Only a true power regenerator like the Power Plant can produce pure, regulated and balanced AC power, with your choice of any waveform or frequency. Built in Ultimate Outlet and improved surge protection If we’ve been asked once, we’ve been asked 100 times to put an Ultimate Outlet inside the Power Plant and make it available to folks so they can power their entire system. Well, we did it. The P1000 sports a heavy duty High Current UO capable of easily delivering a couple thousand watts of power all by itself. The Ultimate outlet’s cleaned power is available on a separate Power Port mounted on the P1000’s rear panel. You can use the UO’s output to power virtually any sized amplifier or projector  and be assured of clean well protected power going to your equipment.Improved surge protection While no surge or transient is able to get through the “brick wall” of the Power Plant AC regenerator, we needed to provide absolutely bulletproof protection for both the regenerator itself and the Ultimate Outlet and anything connected to the Ultimate Outlet. Featured inside the P1000 is a new level of surge protection currently found on all of our Ultimate Outlets of late. The first stage of surge and spike protection is provided by six 1.5kv Tranzorbers that together provide up to 9000kv of surge protection. As a secondary measure, we also use four 10,000 amp MOV’s! In the unlikely event that a surge comes along that’s big enough to overpower the Tranzorbers, a small protection fuse opens up and a power relay disconnects both the P1000 and everything connected to any of the outputs on the back of the P1000. Replace the small fuse and you’re back in business, your equipment is safe. The P1000 and everything connected to it will be 100% protected from any transient or surge event possible. Twice the output devices and power supply To produce the 1000 watts available in the AC regenerator section of the P1000 it was necessary to double the number of output devices found in the P600 and more than double the power supply reserves. Increased energy storage was also required to provide enough power to the internal regeneration power amplifiers and maintain the low output impedance and exceptional voltage regulation provided by the P1000. The PS Audio P1000 will regulate the output voltage to within 1/2 of a volt from idle to full output current. Try that with a power conditioner! Isn’t going to happen.  The biggest danged power transformer we’ve ever seen!One of the keys to creating a truly big AC regenerator like the P1000 is to get the AC power from the wall into the regenerator with as little restriction as possible. Achieving the minimal restriction requirement was just one of the design goals for the input AC transformer of the P1000. Another design goal was low heat and low mechanical hum. As the P1000 is required to deliver power on a 24/7 long term basis with no problems whatsoever, we designed a Power transformer the likes of which we have never seen. Spanning almost the entire front half of the P600 chassis and internal height of the unit, this massive toroidal transformer makes almost no heat or mechanical noise when operating at full load. It is truly a remarkable feat of engineering to build something this big. In-rush current limiter for easy start up and no restriction The next problem you wind up with when you install a monster power supply is in-rush current. The demand placed on your home's AC power to charge this beast is enough to kick off your home's circuit breaker if it isn't implemented properly. The trick with an in-rush limiter is to gently draw current out of the wall socket on startup but then remove the limiter when the Power Plant has reached operational status. In the P1000 we use the internal microprocessor to communicate with an inteligent switch that allows the P1000 to start in a very gentle fashion when first plugged in to the wall, and then the in-rush current limiter is removed so the full power available from your AC socket is available with no further limitations. A new servo system! Perhaps one of the most important and beneficial features of the P1000 is its built in servo system. This  servo system is added to any Power Plant as soon as you upgrade to MW II and is a standard feature of the P1000 Power Plant.The new servo system offers a major improvement in distortion generated both within your equipment’s power transformer and plugging the equipment directly into the wall socket. This is accomplished through a new servo control circuit that provides a super-symetrical balance between the two phases of power coming out of your Power Plant. Even your home's AC can, and frequently does, upset the symmetry of your equipment's power supply resulting in mechanical hum you can hear inside the equipment as well as increased distortion products. This unbalancing of the AC is caused by a small amount of DC voltage present on the line. Most of our home’s AC has this small component of DC on the AC. This small amount of DC can cause your equipment’s transformer to hum and generate unwanted distortion products, even clipping if the DC component is large enough. Any level of DC causes the transformer to produce an asymmetrical charging current which can “clip” the transformer, much like a power amplifier putting out too much wattage, causing increased harmonic distortion and mechanical vibrations in the transformer, which you hear as hum.  Power Plants have been used successfully to eliminate these common DC problems on your homes AC line, but in some cases, even Power Plants themselves have contributed a bit of unbalanced AC as well.To solve this problem, the P1000 includes a new servo controlled circuit that virtually eliminates the imbalance and reduces the DC to less than 0.01 volts! Your wall socket can easily have 10 to 20 times this amount. This is a major improvement over both your home’s wall socket as well as the original Power Plants with or without MultiWave installed. New MultiWave II™ patterns Perhaps the second most exciting aspect of the P1000 is the introduction of MultiWave II, TubeWave and AutoWave. MutliWave II and TubeWave are now available as an upgrade for all Power Plant owners. AutoWave is a feature exclusive to both the P500 and P1000 Power Plants. MultiWave II is the next generation of power delivery waveforms. What comes out of your wall socket AC receptacle is a sinewave. A sinewave moves from plus to minus and back again once every 60th of a second in North America and once every 50th of a second in many parts of the world. This alternating current is what powers virtually every home in the world and while it does a good job of keeping our equipment running, there is a better way available to us if we can generate our own power.  Every Power Plant owner in the world has the ability to generate their own power and MultiWave is, in many cases, better than the standard “missionary positioned” sinewaves.MultiWave II is a significant improvement over even the original MultiWave patterns that so changed the AV world’s thinking on power. Based on the same principals of increased peak charging times, the new MultiWave II improves dramatically on the quasi random nature of MultiWave I. MultiWave II, designed by our VP of engineering Bob Stadtherr, is a significant advance in the art of power delivery. In Bob’s words: “The new MultiWave patterns use a random sequence of frequencies. This can have the effect of spreading out any artifacts caused by the power line frequencies. IM (intermodulation) products related to the power line should be spread over a wider range, thus reduced in amplitude. The partial square waveforms have a “softer” top, which delivers current to filter capacitors over a longer time period, thus reducing the peak current. Lower peak current means less noise coupling, more efficiency, and a higher power factor.” Random is the key. What Bob discovered in his research is that MultiWave I patterns were too predictable in their sequence and by randomizing the patterns, we were able to create 4 new MultiWave II patterns that just annihilate the old MultiWave I performance benefits. MultiWave II,TubeWave and AutoWave are major performance increases over both sinewaves as well as  MultiWave I.TubeWave TubeWave™ is a special waveform that is specifically designed for any tube circuit or solid state equipment you want to take on a tube-like sound. In the past, we have cautioned folks about the use of some MultiWaves with tube circuits. This is because some tube circuits have fans which need a relatively constant frequency sinewave to operate properly. Further, other tube circuits had to have their bias reset when run on some MultiWaves. With PS Audio's unique TubeWave, you can use it to power any tube circuit from tubed D to A processors, to tube preamplifiers, power amplifiers and so on. Even those with fans are fine as well. TubeWave uses a pure low distortion sinewave and selects up to 10 different frequencies that it 'dithers' around in a random fashion, with frequencies varying in a narrow band between 60Hz and 70Hz. Unique is the limited bandwidth of the frequency movement and the way it moves from frequency to frequency. Completely safe for all tube circuits, now you can use a MultiWave on your tube equipment with no worries, even those with fans. Even solid state equipment can benefit from TubeWave. TubeWave will add a roundness to solid state equipment, with a big open soundstage that you probably have never heard your equipment produce before. AutoWave A dream of ours since the inception of the Power Plant has been to precisely measure the load presented by a person’s equipment and then generate a new set of waveforms that exactly match the requirements of the load. Almost “Buck Rogers” in concept, the execution of this amazing new technology required a lot of  fancy footwork along with the development of the new PS power meter to make it a reality.The problem in power systems is their dynamic nature. Sure, you can select a frequency or a particular MultiWave pattern that best suits the system configuration. But, what happens when you start playing music or video? Everything changes as the power demands go up and down. So, the dream has been to design a dynamic system that measures the changing load in real time, creates the appropriate waveforms that best suit the instantaneous needs of your equipment and thereby dramatically improve the performance of your audio or video system “on the fly”. This is heady and revolutionary stuff that basically leaves all the competitors that have sprung to life after the introduction of the Power Plant in the proverbial dust. Why? Because only a true AC regenerator has the ability to produce any waveform our wild eyed designers dream up, and the Power Plants are the only AV regenerators in the world. Now that AutoWave has been released, PS Audio once again sets the power market on its ear (to make a pun) and leaves the pack to figure out how they are going to respond. AutoWave chooses its own waveform AutoWave will select one of the 4 new MultiWave II patterns that best suit the instantaneous needs of your equipment. When your system is at rest, the AutoWave computer will produce a pure random sinewave pattern based on the power factor it reads. When you start to play a movie or an audio track the AutoWave calculator figures out the phase angle of the power being consumed thus calculating the cumulative power factor of the load, the amount of current and then instantly selects the best pattern to supply the energy. You can hear and see the improvements immediately. Click the front panel of the P1000 to “Auto” and let the fun begin! We doubt you’ve ever heard or seen anything like this before. System Clean Our newest feature in Power Plants is System Clean. System Clean sweeps the system clean and renews the audio system for peak performance every time you press the button. System Clean has two modes: a 30 second thorough cleaning mode and a short burst mode. The two modes sweep a set of frequency modulated sinewaves through the entire range of 50Hz to 120Hz and then back again in a gentle cleansing routine for anything connected to it. Before you begin listening to your system, press System Clean (one of the modes) and let the Power Plant cleanse your system. If you're doing serious listening, use the short burst mode between CD's or vinyl to referesh the system between plays. You will notice fuller midbass, less harshness and an ease of presentation that can only happen once the system is 'purged' of its AC problems. System Clean is available as standard on all Power Plants produced after March 2005. If you have an older Power Plant, you can upgrade to include the System Clean feature by purchasing the Plus upgrade of MultiWave II. Click here for further details. Finer adjustments of the sinewave We haven’t left out the original sinewaves, first introduced to the world in the original Power Plants. Every Power Plant has always had the ability for the user to choose a frequency that best suits his systems needs, or perhaps used as a motor controller for an AC synchronous turntable.  Why would you want to change the frequency from the traditional 50 or 60Hz every person on the planet is stuck with? Simple: 60Hz may be a convenient frequency for your power company to deliver power to your home, but 60 or 50 Hz definitely is not the optimal frequency to run most equipment if we place performance foremost in our mind set.In fact, most power transformers have lower levels of radiated magnetic fields at higher frequencies. Power supply capacitors make smoother voltages when operated at higher frequencies and so forth. The new P1000 Power Plant offers its owners an increased level of fine adjustment of these frequencies. Now, Power Plant owners can adjust the frequency of the Power Plant in 0.0625 Hz steps from 50 Hz all the way to 120 Hz. Finer control offers the user a greater possibility of maximizing his individual system’s performance. A beautiful system and the perfect Power Plant The P1000 is large enough to handle just about any system or amplifier. It will produce up to 1000 watts of pure regulated power to your coveted music or film system and provide results so stunning that you will forget your listening to the system or watching a film. It’s simply uncanny how the P1000 makes every system or amplifier better – and not just by a little. Contact your PS dealer for a demonstration or contact PS Audio directly. Whatever you decide we would strongly recommend you consider powering your entire system the right way, with no compromises. Don’t settle for second best. Go all the way with a P1000.
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