Gordian combines a powerful industrial grade power analyzer, a smart and adaptive power
line conditioner, a power factor corrector and a robust power distributor in a convenient,
elegant and affordable device. It aims at providing valuable information about our main
power supply quality and gently improving the quality of our system’s power without
affecting the positive characteristics of our system (e.g. dynamics) that most conventional
filters tend to break down.
The analog part of its powerful analyzer is consisted of 8 high precision measuring modules
that continuously monitor frequency, AC voltage, DC voltage, high level current, low level
current, EMI noise, ground resistance and power connection polarity. The output of these
modules is routed to 8 ADC components which gather 256 samples per cycle for each
measurement. As a result the main processor of Gordian is fed with 2048 quality
measurements per cycle of our power line.
Based on these measurements Gordian also performs frequency analysis (Fourier
transformation) of our system's voltage and current. In other words, it analyses our system
voltage and current and finds out the amount of noise that lives in various frequency ranges.
Furthermore, it calculates the total harmonic distortion (THD) of our system's voltage and
current. THD is the most fundamental indicator of our power quality. It reveals how "pure"
and sinusoidal our power signal is. Moreover, it calculates the power consumption and
power factor of our system which indicates how effectively our system absorbs power from
the electrical network.
All this valuable information (Frequency, AC Voltage, DC Voltage, Current, EMI Noise Level,
Ground Quality, Connection Polarity, Frequency analysis, THD, Power Consumption, Power
Factor, THD) is accessible through a big and legible OLED display and a simple and
convenient menu navigation knob. Especially for the frequency analysis, the owner of
Gordian may observe a nice plot with a moving cursor for exploring the noise content in the
various frequencies of our voltage spectrum. This is a really cool and unique feature that
cannot be found in other power conditioning systems of this category. If you find the OLED
display disturbing in the night you can adjust its brightness, turn it off or let Gordian detect
when your system is inactive and automatically switch off the display.
All this impressive functionality is only about the power analyzing part of Gordian. We have
not touched yet the power filtering capabilities of this great device. Behind the scenes an
adaptive network of passive elements (capacitors and inductors) undertakes the critical
work of gently cleaning up our power. And it really IS adaptive and genteel. Every single
piece of information that the analyzer gathers is taken into account for automatically
adjusting the filter configuration to match the characteristics of our power line optimally.
The filter can be configured in 4 different setups. It can be soft or aggressive, it can target
to noise that lives in both our phase and neutral wires (Common Mode Filtering) or to noise
that lives between the wires (Differential Mode Filtering) or to both of them. The correct
decision will be taken by the Gordian main processor or you can experiment with the
different configurations and manually select the preferred setup. This is equivalent to having
4 different power conditioners and always use the one that best matches the characteristics
of your power line.
And we are not finished yet... Gordian also performs power factor correction! Our audio or
multimedia systems tend to behave like inductive loads. Inductive loads usually demonstrate
a low Power Factor. This means that are not good at effectively absorbing the power of our
electrical networks. This can be fixed by connecting a "bank" of large capacitors to our load
and make it behave more like a resistance than an inductor. Some, power conditioning
systems offers this functionality as a feature but it also can be a real disaster for our power
quality, because if the connected capacitance is larger than the required one, this can
damage further the power factor of our system. However, Gordian will automatically
calculate and connect the optimal amount of capacitance to get the Power Factor of our
system to the maximum feasible level. It will automatically detect the best capacitance
option among the four available but the owner may also experiment and manually setup the
Power Factor Correction module. Last but not least we have to add the overvoltage
protection that Gordian incorporates to protect our devices from high voltage peaks.
Do you want more good news about Gordian? We have some... Gordian comes with a 1.5 m
20A Lab12 Knack cable. This high quality power cable is the best company for this great
power conditioner and is offered within the Gordian package without any extra cost!