Most surge protection is built to wear out.
Bantam isn't. The difference comes down to four things: protection that spends itself to do its job, a path almost everyone forgets, a leak nobody designed, and an architecture that conditions your power without consuming itself.
Start with what conventional protection gets wrong.
Each leads somewhere deeper. Follow them in order, or jump to the one that speaks to your equipment.
Series, not sacrificial
Nearly every surge protector sold today protects by sacrificing itself. Its clamping components give up a little capacity with every spike they absorb, until one day there is nothing left to give. Most never warn you when that day arrives.
See what wears out → The deeper problemThe ground path problem
When a conventional protector clamps a surge, that energy has to go somewhere. It usually goes to the ground conductor, the one wire your electrical code requires to run unbroken through the entire facility. One problem solved by loading the most far-reaching wire in the building.
Read about the ground path → The hidden problemMagnetic decoupler
Three conductors bound together in one jacket behave like a transformer nobody designed. Through inductive coupling, energy on any one of them appears on the other two. Bantam decouples the conductors from one another, so a problem cannot be traded from one to the next.
Read about decoupling → The answerProven to last
Bantam's patented architecture places tuned inductors in series on every conductor: line, neutral, and ground. The element that conditions your power is not consumed by doing its job, so there is nothing to expire quietly and nothing to replace on a schedule.
U.S. 8,223,468 · 11,775,645 · 12,019,751 · 12,271,477 See how it works →What wears out, and what doesn't.
Send surges through both kinds of protection and watch the gap open up. Conventional protection loses capacity with every event, because absorbing the energy is what spends it. Bantam's inductive conditioning holds.
Both start at full capacity. Send a surge to see what each one gives up.
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