For home theater, how do you fill short dips in power supply, such as when the washing machine starts up?

My understanding is that surge protectors only take out the spikes. I don't see how they can take out the dips. A UPS on the other hand wouldn't kick over to battery power on a small, very short dip, would it?For home theater, how do you fill short dips in power supply, such as when the washing machine starts up?
There are power conditioning devices available at higher end home theater retailers, which should do the trick, but they are not cheap. Are you sure your breaker panel has enough capacity for all of your appliances %26amp; equipment?For home theater, how do you fill short dips in power supply, such as when the washing machine starts up?
mare sure your home theater is on it's won 20 amp dedicated circuit ( 2 would be bad at all and split he components up betwen 2 20 amp dedicated circuits ) will eleminate the problem, if however the recepatacle you use shared the same circuit than the washer then the inrush current needed by the motor wil temp run up the amps ( if you could meter it with a amp probe you'll see spike of 22 - 25 amps for a brief duration, not enough to trip a 20 amp breaker if the duration is short ), so if you got AV runing at the same time you gt a drop in avalible amps and hence the drop as the demand load on a given circuit is more than availbe amps. once the motor starts ( and keep in mind washers do not have capacitors or starters like bigger AC compressors / equiptment will have to alleviate the very same thing you are facing ( but in this case it to prevent nuisance breaker tripping ).





when i wire new home or do remodels, i provide 20 dedicated 20 amp circuits ( no shared nuetral ) all the way back to the panel, along with cat3, cat5, and of course AV input/ outputs to the home theater area ( usally stubbing up 2 1 1/2'; conduits for future or 1 1/2'; pus 1 2'; for those hdmi calble. of course this works on attic accsescable areas
Ive heard of apower strip that has a cap built in, it is designed for DLP and LCD tvs so their light source isnt cut off instantly in a power outage try circuit city or best buy


but you should have the electrical checked there shouldnt be a drop unless a wire some where is too thin causing it to dip
you would need a power capacitator. they are definately made for cars, and I am pretty sure homes as well. It stores constant supplies power so when something else goes on it won't effect your power supply.