Only nerds buy surge protectors.. I can only imagine you at the nerd store..
"one surge protector, 2 packs of mountain dew, 4 bags of doritos, and one blow up Sally."

Maybe the blow up Sally but none of that other shit.

The naive, educated by advertising and hearsay, buy magic boxes that will somehow block what three miles of sky cannot. The informed properly earth what has made even direct lightning strikes irrelevant for over 100 years. Both are called surge protectors. Both are completely different.

Protection is always about where hundreds of thousands of joules are harmlessly absorbed. Nothing adjacent to appliances can do that. After all, how does that 2 cm part stop what three miles of sky could not? How does its hundreds of joules absorb a surge that is hundreds of thousands of joules?

Properly earthing only one 'whole house' protector means everything is protected even from direct lightning strikes. Critical is what a protector connects to. Protectors do not do protection. Effective protectors connect low impedance (ie less than 10 feet) to what does protection. Then hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly dissipate in earth.

This superior and proven (for over 100 years) solution typically costs about $1 per protected appliance.

World's greatest homeowners properly earth a 'whole house' protector so that even direct lightning strikes cause no damage - even to a protector. A protector is only as effective as its earth ground. Those 'magic' box plug-in protectors have no earth ground and will not even discuss it. Unfortunately, naive consumers only learn from hearsay; buy protectors that do not even claim to provide that protection. Where do hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly dissipate?

fuckin right i do i have my pc shit +consoles+tv running through 3 surge bars
like not 3 seperate surge bars for each thing 3 surge bars plugged into each other with all my shit plugged in the last one

i had a tv and old computer fry when iwas younger from that shit now thati bought my own shit n its worth a good amount fuck risking it

This post was edited by dragoneth on Oct 29 2015 08:14am

Ac is just that, alternating. A surge protecter is to protect you from surges in electricity not specially getting struck by lightning.

@westom
"The naive, educated by advertising and hearsay, buy magic boxes that will somehow block what three miles of sky cannot."

not all surges are from lightning i once had a wind storm which was blowing a tree into hydro wires and caused surges
my freind had to get a $500 part for his oven because the surge fried it my neighbor had shit get wrecked my stuff was good to go

This post was edited by dragoneth on Oct 29 2015 12:34pm

i need that surge, that hocus pocus focus juice

Those other 'surges' are electrically equivalent to lightning. Other surges are created by falling wires, rodents (also called squirrels), stray cars, and linemen errors. Surges from those faults also are not averted by adjacent (plug-in) protectors. Lightning is simply a typical example.

Only reason for surge protection is from surges that typically do damage - ie lightning and those other sources. Adjacent protectors must somehow and magically block or absorb those transients. Specification numbers make it obvious it does not happen.

Effective protectors from all type of surges (including lightning) are effective, must not fail due to any of those surges (including lightning), and typically costs tens or 100 times less money per protected appliance.

Again, protection is always about where hundreds of thousands of joules dissipate. Even the protector must not fail; must remain functional even after multiple direct lightning strikes. This superior solution (what is found in facilities that cannot have damage) is readily available from other manufacturers known for their integrity.

Real men earth one 'whole house' protector.

Can you post a photo of this or not say it in such a vague sentence...? What does this even mean..?

Most power strips have surge protection built in. If you have one without, you're fucking dumb.