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Warning, this device doesn't have any safety certifications like UL, ETL, or CSA. A fire is not worth the savings.
100% this. We had bad storms/electrical surge earlier this year. I'm someone who didn't always care/bought a few cheap power strips for office, basement, etc (majority of ours had safety certification).
Electrical surge caused~$27k worth of damages to our house and we were scared to death we had a house fire with all the smoke from blown appliances/items that were plugged into wall or crappy power strips. The majority of our strips and surge protectors did their job. Multiple blew/partially melted.
Moral of the story: don't ever cheap out to save a few bucks on anything that isn't safety certified. Also, make sure you have appropriate home insurance coverage; we were fortunate and had 100% coverage + got full replacement on everything
Last edited by Clu11152 October 24, 2026 at 11:10 PM.
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What's the clamping voltage on these? I assume these are basically just power strips -- and the 12-outlet one seems to be a decent configuration for a power strip.
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100% this. We had bad storms/electrical surge earlier this year. I'm someone who didn't always care/bought a few cheap power strips for office, basement, etc (majority of ours had safety certification).
Electrical surge caused~$27k worth of damages to our house and we were scared to death we had a house fire with all the smoke from blown appliances/items that were plugged into wall or crappy power strips. The majority of our strips and surge protectors did their job. Multiple blew/partially melted.
Moral of the story: don't ever cheap out to save a few bucks on anything that isn't safety certified. Also, make sure you have appropriate home insurance coverage; we were fortunate and had 100% coverage + got full replacement on everything
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