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Panamax Saves the Day at AVAD Vend-O-Palooza

With 41 vendors, a bunch of extension cords simply won't do.


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CE Distributor AVAD is bringing mini trade shows to 20 cities on its Vend-O-Palooza tour.

Up to 41 vendors participate in the affairs, demo'ing product and schmoozing with up to 200 dealers.

That's a lot of vendors and a lot of gear.

Thus, "there’s the issue of powering the event," says Bob Smith, deal of AVAD University. "It’s difficult to pull enough power to run the video displays out in the parking lot, which is where the events usually take place."

Smith tells of AVAD's largest Vend-O-Palooza in Livermore, Calif., when a record-breaking number of A/V vendors exhibited their wares.

"All these displays fed off a couple of extension cords plugged into a wall outlet inside the branch," he says. "What happened was that every time an amplifier vendor demoed his product, the breaker was tripped due to the huge inrush of current, taking out power to half of the tents."

AVAD vendor Panamax came to the rescue with an M5400-PM voltage regulator, straight off the display rack."

"Problem solved," says Smith.

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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.

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