20 Dec
2002
20 Dec
'02
1:52 p.m.
I've never had a problem with surge bars. I mostly try to use high-quality
ones, like Isobars; there're expensive, but worth it. I once plugged a cheap
stereo into one that also had a Sun Ultra2 w/ some external disks and a
monitor plugged in; the stereo shorted one outlet, which let out magic smoke
and a bunch of sparks, and the Sun kept running along with no hiccups at
all... I continued to use the bar, too, just avoiding the 2 outlets that were
effected by the short (they looked kind of black and yucky afterwards).
Heftly isolation filters between every pair of outlets and a heavy metal case
work wonders :)
Dwight K. Elvey said:
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Are you kidding, I don't think I've ever seen
one without a UL sticker.
I've just seen the third surge protector
blow
up and this time, it almost started a real fire.
I wonder if any of the fire prevention groups
are
looking into these time bombs?
Are you buying units that are UL approved?
When I blow up power strips so far all I get are sparks and a very small
puff of smoke.
This is what the metal ones do ( at least the two I've seen go ).
It was a plastic one that caused the troubles. When I've looked
in the metal ones, I've never seen a separate fuse. I don't
know what the plastic one had, it is a melted mess.
Dwight