Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Although the Furman I use is 20 amps and requires a 20 amp outlet shape, any 'regular' Furman (with a regular power plug) is better than just a power strip because they all have overload protection. They will blow out in an overload rather than passing it to your equipment. I also like seeing the voltage readout; I can see if a brownout is occurring.

I use my Furman in conjunction with an APC UPS (uninterruptible power supply).

As for plugging one Furman into another, I don't know. Maybe Herb does. The APC people did tell me to plug theirs in first, NOT into a Furman, but as I mentioned, the 20 amp plug on the Furman makes doing that not possible. I can tell you, this system survived a lightning hit that blew out quite a bit of stuff in my house and my neighbor's house, but my audio equipment was OK except for one small firewire circuit board. I was impressed.


I also have an APC UPS and I have two Furman Rackrider RR15X units, one plugged into the other. I have one Furman plugged into the UPS and the other plugged into the first. I have been running this way for a number of years now with no problems.

I also used the Kill-A-Watt tester to determine what I needed.

The fitness trainer asked me, "What kind of a squat are you accustomed to doing?" I said, "Diddly."


64 bit Win 11 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware