surge protectors, are they worth getting?
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As title, looking through the Argos catalogue today and saw some of these and thought hmmm maybe i should invest in one?
Id just plug in all my high value things like stereo, pc+ moniter and the ones i was looking at in Argos even have points to plug in a phone/broadband etc.
Guess its worth getting for £15-£20 if its potentially protecting thousands of pounds worth of gear
Anybody else got one? and more to the point, do they work!?
Id just plug in all my high value things like stereo, pc+ moniter and the ones i was looking at in Argos even have points to plug in a phone/broadband etc.
Guess its worth getting for £15-£20 if its potentially protecting thousands of pounds worth of gear
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Anybody else got one? and more to the point, do they work!?
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Well ive belkin are pretty good so ill probably get one of those, its got something like £5000 warrenty for the gear its connected to or somthing like that.
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Dont bother with them. Last one I had couldnt protect a cold glass of piss.
Was out for the day, bit of a storm, came back to find HDD and modem shot.
Doesnt really matter to me now as I just run laptops on battery and charge when needed.
Was out for the day, bit of a storm, came back to find HDD and modem shot.
Doesnt really matter to me now as I just run laptops on battery and charge when needed.
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Dont bother with them. Last one I had couldnt protect a cold glass of piss.
Was out for the day, bit of a storm, came back to find HDD and modem shot.
Doesnt really matter to me now as I just run laptops on battery and charge when needed.
Was out for the day, bit of a storm, came back to find HDD and modem shot.
Doesnt really matter to me now as I just run laptops on battery and charge when needed.
One ive just bought has a connected equipment warranty of £100,000
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phone/broadband connections aswell
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Be warned, if you have cable your still at risk. Ive had 2 strikes nuke modems/routers/network cards and a pc. Power was supplied via a protected UPS and it caught the surge, the coax cable was the only unprotected entry point/
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I too have had a pc hit whilst using in the storm, luckily it only blew the 56k modem as it was many years ago, the pc was fine. For general house purposes a surge protector is recommended. About a year ago i had at large screen tv go and though nothing of it until a couple of weeks later a newish dyson went from the same source.
Went out and got a surge protector straight away unti it was sorted.
Went out and got a surge protector straight away unti it was sorted.
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