Inexpensive consumer grade “surge protector” strips use the least amount of technology and parts possible to meet a price point that will be attractive to non-discerning or unknowing consumers.  Consumer based surge protector use MOVs (Metal Oxide Varistors) to divert destructive energy from one power path to another, usually to the ground wire.  Think of this as a valve diverting polluted flood water down the storm drain.  Bantam technology uses a revolutionary patented circuit with inductors that behave like a reservoir, instantly capturing and storing the energy, to be released as pure clean power.

MOVs are weakened with each surge event, The more energy an MOV experiences the sooner they wear out and stop working. Big surge events, like a lightening strike, will burn out an MOV. Unlike the sacrificial design of MOVs that fail after a handful of surge events, the Bantam circuit will not fail. In a UL tests designed to simulate lightening strikes, the Bantam tolerated surges of 6000 volts and 3000 amps, every 45 seconds for 24 hours before UL stopped the test.  That is over 1,800 surge events without damage to the Bantam, or the computer the Bantam was protecting.  Consumer grade surge protectors wouldn’t last 4 minutes.