Best and most protective surge protector

I don't read the tech board. So your joke just went way over my head. Looking for friendly helpful advice. Don't clog my thread with that please.

It wasn't a joke.

Try a goolge search for such a simple question, or amazon sorted by user rating.

I use this in another one of my audio rigs--the Pioneer Elite Plasma is plugged into this...



McIntosh MPC1500

I bought the Tripp Lite after the board recommended it

I've had a cpl of these since 2000, tripplite line conditioner

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plug all the AV stuff into it, and it does surge too...

From experience.

Check the UL label, get one with UL #1449 meaning it was UL tested as a surge protector. Many of the cheap plug strip type surge protectors are only UL tested as plug strips.
With a lighting strike or power company surge they can and will catch on fire. I have seen it a dozen times at least.
The UL 1449 type will burn out from a lighting strike, but will still protect equipment down line and they wont catch on fire.

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Demonstrated is how scams get promoted. UL1449 does nothing to define effective protection. UL1449 approval does not test for transistor protection. UL is about human protection - not about transistor protection. Even a grossly undersized protector can do no effective protection and obtain a UL listing. Because it did not burn down a house and threaten human life - during testing.

A protector burns out because a surge, too tiny to overwhelm protection inside appliances, also destroys a grossly undersized protector. Then a $3 power strip with ten cent protector parts can sell for an obscenely profitable $25 or $100. Does that meet the definition of a scam?

UL is about human protection. Effective surge protection is about transistor protection. Latter states where hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly dissipate ... without any protector failure.

From elementary school science, remember how electricity works. If electricity is incoming to a protector, then same current (at same time) is also outgoing into 'equipment down line'. Long later, one or many items in that path fail. A same current incoming to a protector destroys a near zero protector. Same current does not overwhelm superior protection in attached appliances. Where is the protection?

Anything that fails on a surge (as reported by a protector's fail light) did not do protection. Why did that near zero and UL listed protector fail?

To keep near zero protector parts from causing a fire, a thermal fuse disconnects protector parts as fast as possible. Surge current remains connected to attached appliances. Now a protector strip becomes a non-protector power strip. Protector parts remain disconnected. Appliances remains connected to AC mains (and all surges).

Sometimes a thermal fuse does not disconnect fast enough. A fire occurs. UL only says a protector is less likely to kill a human. But UL is only about protecting humans - not transistors.

Recently, APC admitted this threat exists with some million of their previously sold and UL listed protectors. Remove those protectors immediately - no delay - to avert threats to human life. Protectors that fail during one surge, are grossly undersized - and obscenely profitable.

One properly earthed 'whole house' solution means direct lightning strikes without damage even to a protector. Specification numbers define that effective protection. Protection is always about where hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly dissipate - to even protect near zero plug-in (and UL listed) protectors.

Protection is always about where hundreds of thousands of joules are harmlessly absorbed. A protector is only as effective as its earth ground. UL listing says nothing about appliance protection.