All consumer electronics equipment from the large manufactures meet the ISO
standards for power supply design. These sets all have adequate protection.
The type of surge protector that you have in an AC bar at the cost you are
looking at may not even be as good as the one built in to the power supply
of your equipment.

The proper solution is to have a UPS that is rated to a more than double
that of the load that is is to be used on it. A good qauality UPS will
switch over to the battery inverter during power brownouts, which are the
types of disturbances that cause the most damage to equipment. As for
surges, a good UPS will have a very good design to also protect its own
systems.

As for these AC bars with surge protection, it is impossible for the price
that they are asking, to have a very good protection. If there is a
lightning strike near to you, most any system you can afford will never be
able to block the surge. Add the $80 to a discent UPS, and you will be much
better off to protect your equipment.

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Jerry G.
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"R. Bharat Rao" wrote in message
news:VfvUd.66322$8a6.43276@trndny09...
I just bought a 61" Samsung DLP.

How important is getting a good surge protector (I'm guessing "very").

How important is getting "clean noise" -- Circuit City is recommending
a $80 Monster Power which has "clean noise"...

Thanks for any help,

Bharat