SurgeX senior engineer Martin Dornfeld discusses power protection and management for home theaters, including surge protection, lightning rods, whole-house versus outlet-level protection, brownouts and blackouts, uninterruptible power supplies, dedicated circuits, grounding, IP power management, whether or not power conditioning can improve the performance of A/V equipment, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

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Martin Dornfeld has been with SurgeX for eight years and is one of the company's longest-tenured employees. During this time, he has served many roles with the company and contributed on many levels, including engineering, sales, design, marketing, and more. Dornfeld helped lead a successful transition for SurgeX into the residential market and is a wealth of information on power management’s role within home theater. He was also heavily involved in the company’s most recent launch into IP-enabled power management from a product development and partnership perspective.

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