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Last night, a circuit breaker kept popping off in the guest/computer room. I'd thought it was either the light fixture in the ceiling or the wall switch and told Barb and David to leave the light off and work on the computer in the dark.This morning, David told me that he thinks it was the power strip...an RCA protection strip that the computer and other office type crap was connected to. Then he had me smell the strip...it had a burnt smell! The light works, the computer works, but out of the blue a product one buys for protecting equipment and the house they're all in could have caused a fire!
Makes one wonder about "saving" money on cheap power protection of ANY kind!
Follow Ups:
I'm too way cheap and too much of a student to get involved with the expensive stuff anyways, but I believe that the best kind of surge protection is to unplug during questionable conditions or even when not in use. I should just practice what I preach more.
IBSmiester
Open Your Ears....
They can take a full on lightening strike and protect your equipment. Most of the strip style surge and spike protectors are an absolute joke.I am glad you found your culpret.
It must have been shorted to keep tripping your circuit brake.
Scarey!
That POS IsoBar by TripLite that caused me such grief.Blew one woofer, almost unreplaceable (bought an extra pair on ePay for insurance)
Compromised one power amp; don't really know what's up with it...
Possible corruption of my Harman-Kardon Signature 2.0
A friend got a UPS style device for his system, cost $1,100! I've only thought about it...
Good luck continuing at your house for the holidays!
Phil
Time to go, Muffin!
These are built to military specs. I can only tell you that they will take a full lightening strike and NO current will pass to your electronics. Their models with line conditioning are excellent as well.Cheers!
Paul at Tube Audio Design offers the Panamax 5100? for around $221.00 including shipping when last I checked. This is an excellent unit with switched and unswitched outlets, CAT 5 and cable protection and line condition monitoring. I use it in my system and could not be happier.
A faulty power strip is what caused me to get out of Vinyl in the first place. While I was away at college my parents put all of my LPs and 45s and turntable down in the basement under my father's workbench. The power strip on the bench shorted out and caused a fire with my vinyl its main fuel. It caused considerable smoke damage to my parents house and sent me to go all digital until this year. The slag pile from my records was impressive and the fire inspector though it was the biggest pile of burnt up records he had seen.
Power strips go bad. Even if they don't cause fires they might not protect as they should. I now replace my lesser strips every few years.Merry Christmas,
Jim
Mike,
I'm in the copier business, and we see this sort of thing a lot. In fact, I would put it as the top reason for copier problems, aside from idiot users. Anyway, be aware that the vast majority of these little strips are nothing more than cheaply made extension cords. They offer little protection, if any. IT'S HYPE, regardless of their equipment guarantees. You may have the circuit overloaded, but computer stuff draws very little current. I would suggest an upgrade type of surge protection, like a Powervar conditioner, or maybe you could drop by a copier place for one. Most sell Panaflex brand strips for around a hundred dollars that do the job nicely. The four to forty dollar ones don't cut it.
Ah yes, the idiot users. "It won't feed from drawer 1." "Um, see that line on there?" "Yes." "Don't load paper above that line." "Ah, OK.""Theres' black lines on the copies." "See that speck of whiteout on the slit glass?" "Yes." Clean it off." This will be repeated umpteen times.
Doug
You sound like you may have a clue about copy machines. Are you in the industry?Or, are you an evil user? ;)
Service rep. I get to fix all the things that are "wrong" with the copiers. Before this, I worked for 23 + years in electronics & 'puters.Same Deal.
Doug
Well Mike, where I used to work, we had an annual safety inspection which, of course, included fire safety. We were NOT allowed to have regular extension cords even if they were of spectacular quality. We were required to have the official power strips.Some of these were of the god awfulest quality and, in fact, caused problems. A coworker of mine went to plug in a piece of equipment one time and the stupid cheap contacts inside got shoved together and BANG! He was lucky he didn't get burned. It almost happened to me too but I saw what was going on before they touched.
Officialdom. Pitiful.
Doug
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