On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:13:00 +0100, "DD" someone@somewhere mused:

Not sure if this is the right place to ask and I know a few electricians
frequent this site so....

We did the right thing some time ago and bought surge protectors for all the
pc and entertainment equipment, or so we thought .........

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.

Yep, I got a load of cheap ones in a box full of miscellaneous cheap
crap I got cheap from somewhere years ago. They're still sat in the
box.

So can anyone recommend a good surge protector please? What specifications
should I be looking for?

How many sources are you looking to protect? The best solution is to
use a UPS, small ones around 350VA can be had for around 35-40GBP and
will mostly come with a connected equipment guarantee.

I have a 2KVA UPS protecting my PC, slightly OTT but it was sat doing
nothing at the time.
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Regards,
Stuart.