Surge Master Saves The Day! By nspear on - Updated Oct 15, 2011
If you own any electronics at all.. then you know how important it is to keep them safe from electrical brown outs or other malfunctions! This handy Surge protector did just that! We had a brown out that fried almost all of best friends electronics.. including her PC. We live just around the corner and had no issues since we were protected by our Belkin SurgeMaster. It not only saved our PC but because we had our phone lines plugged into it as well.. saved our Modem and networking cards! In all it cost my friend over $2300 to replace the damaged equipment she lost! Ours was protected by a $24.00 investment! How can you chance something like this happening for such a low cost? I know I can't!
It has six outlets as well as phone inlet and outlet which makes it convenient to plug multiple pieces of equipment into the one device! So it doubles as extra outlets! There is also two indicator lights (One for "Grounded" and the other for "Protected" to help ease your mind that everything you have plugged in is being protected properly.
A must have for anyone with electronics in there home!
Specs:
Transient Voltage Surge Suppressors
Model #F5C572-CW
Listed: E155217
Voltage Suppression Rateing: 330V UL1449
Maximum Load: 15A 125Vac 60 Hz 1875W
About The Author:
Belkin F5C572-CW Purchased at: Best Buy Price: $23.99
I own a couple of surge protectors as well and they are great to have for those just-in-case times.
Yeah, we had to learn the hard way (thankfully not $2300 worth!) that we needed a better surge protector. For sure, get one with the phone jacks... we fried all our modems.
Thank goodness you made that small investment in a good surge protector!
I have these and nothing electrical is pugged in unless it is plugged into these. It is always good to be safe. Thanks for sharing the information.
You make a very good case for having a surge protector! We do not have one with phone jacks, so perhaps it is time for us to look for an upgrade... Actually... I bet that is what killed our Lynksys! It died while we were on vacation and we couldn't figure out how or why because everything else looked fine. hmmm...
After my modem getting blown up several times by lightening you would think I would invest in something like this. Thank you.
Good thing you had that when you did! A must have for everyone.
It gave me a thought to buy some protection and save a lot in future
I have a nice surge protector. Watch out for the phone man, if you are on dial up. When they test a line, they have a way with going over these protectors to enter the rear of your comp. Usually when they AMP a BOX!