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"The Anker 351 Power Strip [nytimes.com] performed dreadfully in our testing, offering no surge protection whatsoever."
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When choosing which SPD to buy, if they do not provide a test report from an accredited EMC testing laboratory (A2LA, etc) signed off by an iNarte certified engineer. Well..
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I guess the point is, make sure it has the light and that it's for that purpose. If there isn't something like that, then they probably aren't serious about what they're building.
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"The Anker 351 Power Strip performed dreadfully in our testing, offering no surge protection whatsoever."
It's in the "competition" section of the best surge protector page:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...pro
"The Anker 351 Power Strip performed dreadfully in our testing, offering no surge protection whatsoever."
It's in the "competition" section of the best surge protector page:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...protector/ [nytimes.com]
Had 2 lightning events, one with an AmazonBasics surge protector (yeah, I know…) - but literally had the 2 connected cameras blow the plug adapters clear out of the sockets, melted the cords, left burn marks all the way up my wall, almost causing a major fire… and blowing the cameras about 50 feet clear off the building— found them halfway across my yard, black and melted.
Ironic part? The surge strip still worked and the "protected" led still shone bright and proud. Lol.
I lost $100 worth or equipment and far more concerning, almost lost my home to an electrical fire… but the $11 surge strip was golden for reuse.
In my mind the goal was to sacrifice the surge strip, save my equipment and not about start a fire.
Maybe I'm naive but I thought there was supposed to be like some kind of fuse or something that fries and kills the circuit?
Got a different brand surge strip, couple months later, exact same shit happened. Melted the wires, fried my equipment, cord melted to the floor… but surge protector still worked fine. Wtf?
Yes these were actual surge protectors and not just power strips.
Third incident was inside my house, thank God no melted gear or burn marks but I lost $300+ worth of stuff (router, cable modem, several other devices). This actually happened twice. So it's actually 4 incidents.
Now we can blame the lightning and poor grounding etc etc but these were in two totally different buildings on two totally different electrical panels, even on separate meters.
So yeah, obvious I have bad luck with lightning but my point is— wtf is the point of a surge protector if I've had 4 different brands completely fail to protect my stuff?
Losing hundreds of dollars worth of stuff is one thing but losing my life in a house fire because I thought I was protected is a pretty damn bigger deal.
That all said- I don't know about this thing but in my experience, these have done nothing.
If you need a strip to plug in a ton of stuff ok cool. But come the big event… I would make sure you get something really good, presuming.
Any thoughts or explanations on the above from people that know more than I do to help me from dying in a house fire in the future? Seems like a really uncool way to go.
I obviously have either really good luck or really horrible luck. Not sure which… but leaning towards "bad".
Had 2 lightning events, one with an AmazonBasics surge protector (yeah, I know…) - but literally had the 2 connected cameras blow the plug adapters clear out of the sockets, melted the cords, left burn marks all the way up my wall, almost causing a major fire… and blowing the cameras about 50 feet clear off the building— found them halfway across my yard, black and melted.
Ironic part? The surge strip still worked and the "protected" led still shone bright and proud. Lol.
I lost $100 worth or equipment and far more concerning, almost lost my home to an electrical fire… but the $11 surge strip was golden for reuse.
In my mind the goal was to sacrifice the surge strip, save my equipment and not about start a fire.
Maybe I'm naive but I thought there was supposed to be like some kind of fuse or something that fries and kills the circuit?
Got a different brand surge strip, couple months later, exact same shit happened. Melted the wires, fried my equipment, cord melted to the floor… but surge protector still worked fine. Wtf?
Yes these were actual surge protectors and not just power strips.
Third incident was inside my house, thank God no melted gear or burn marks but I lost $300+ worth of stuff (router, cable modem, several other devices). This actually happened twice. So it's actually 4 incidents.
Now we can blame the lightning and poor grounding etc etc but these were in two totally different buildings on two totally different electrical panels, even on separate meters.
So yeah, obvious I have bad luck with lightning but my point is— wtf is the point of a surge protector if I've had 4 different brands completely fail to protect my stuff?
Losing hundreds of dollars worth of stuff is one thing but losing my life in a house fire because I thought I was protected is a pretty damn bigger deal.
That all said- I don't know about this thing but in my experience, these have done nothing.
If you need a strip to plug in a ton of stuff ok cool. But come the big event… I would make sure you get something really good, presuming.
Any thoughts or explanations on the above from people that know more than I do to help me from dying in a house fire in the future? Seems like a really uncool way to go.
I obviously have either really good luck or really horrible luck. Not sure which… but leaning towards "bad".
Get better surge protectors .Cheap protectors aren't shutting down fast enough so everything gets fried
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"The Anker 351 Power Strip [nytimes.com] performed dreadfully in our testing, offering no surge protection whatsoever."
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