Power line voltage drops are among the most frequent and expensive power quality problems. Most equipment must be designed in such a way that they can withstand voltage drops (within defined limits according to some standards). In addition, some equipment must continue to function properly even under extreme conditions of fall (critical loads); this property often can not be accommodated within the device itself and runoff compensation power conditioners have been developed for such purposes. Although in practice no voltage drop is desired, it is necessary to generate unevenness in order to experimentally verify the performance of the equipment (both the equipment in sink state and the sink compensation power conditioner) under conditions of sinking . In this work a simple and economical but high yielding sinker is developed, its design is discussed and its viability demonstrated through experiments. The proposed solid state relay (a triac semiconductor power module) and variable transformer (variac) based bleeder generator is built for three-phase classifications of 10 kVA, and compensated / unbalanced voltage voltages are demonstrated in the laboratory. The performance is evaluated under resistive, inductive and non-linear loads and, finally, the use of the sink generator is tested in the test of a power quality conditioner based on serial active filter. The proposed approach provides a very simple but highly effective solution for the generation of voltage drop.