"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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On 08/04/2007 18:13, DD wrote:

A power surge last week and one fried tv later, and we now discover that
the cheap ones are hardly worth having! Did not realise there were
different standards of surge protection.

They may be cheap and crap, but regardless it might have come with an
£x,000 equipment guarantee ...


They are Masterplug and only seem to come with a 3 year guarantee. They are
at least 7 years old (one is dated 1999) and we have looked and can't find
any receipts or the package inserts we thought we kept.