I am looking for a power strip(surge protector) that will be able to handle two machines and one monitor.DO I have to buy a very expensive one ?...does the price is an indication of how much protection you get? Thanks for the answers. Some surge protectors...

melting, and might have caught the house on fire had my wife not noticed it was getting warm (after the power came back on). - Two Belkin power strips with surge supression, which so far as I can tell, protected everything downstream. One of these things...

06:36 +1200, "Geoff Wood" wrote: >Cheap power strips don't have 'surge protection'. They usually have a small >circuit-breaker. Neither of these items would interact in the slightest >with your power conditioner anyway. In fact, you should try your...

ddress.com: >>> Ted Zieglar wrote: >>>>>> Do NOT plug a power strip into a UPS, particularly one with a surge>>>protector. >>>>>>>>>> I've always kept a (non surge protected) power strip, plugged into >> my UPS, for little things like phone...

by shopping on the web. I can't see any reason for a >surge suppressor. My Samsung is plugged directly into the wall. Surge suppressors and UPS's with built-in surge suppression have saved my bacon more than once. Mind you, I've been living, up until...

sign says "You got to have a membership card to get inside" Huh So I got me a pen and paper And I made up my own little sign If you know what you're doing, you can turn a cheap power strip into a surge protector by adding 3 MOVs, one across each pair of wires...

your symptoms. As for that UPS - it and those power strip surge protectors contain same surge protector circuits. Neither claims to protect from a destructive type of surge. They simply claim to be surge protectors and leave you to *assume* that is...

a glorified power strip and surge protector. With all those components, I really need it because it keeps the power cords all inside the rack space instead of spaghettied all over the floor behind into a couple of cheesy floor power strips. So this leaves...

turn the power strip off. It's just a power strip not a surge protector? I think you're on the right track by hooking it up to a UPS. Surge protectors will prevent surges but not dips. My friend had a huge problem with data corruption. His house was...

must be inserted, with its type number facing upward (and the protective tape removed from covering the jets of the cartridge). I was puzzled for a while before I realized that the cartridge has to be inserted UNDER this metal strip. >I may be missing...