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Not to be a nuisance, but you do realize that this will not protect against voltage elevation originating from the power company? For example, if the power was cut due to a fallen tree, etc, and the power company electrician restores it, there is a "surge" of significantly higher voltage for a few seconds. Or, even worse, if the electrician messes up and lets through a voltage of 480 volts (happened twice in Northbrook, an upscale suburb of Chicago) it will reach your equipment, instantly destroying it. I never realized that is the case, until I spoke to an engineer at SurgeX. He explained to me that they stop all the surges at frequencies other than 60 Hertz. Anything at 60 Hertz passes unchanged.View attachment 300619Only downside of surgeX is the plug is not flat. Thats where zerosurge has it beat.
Surgex is nicer looking.
I don’t know why zerosurge makes an 8 outlet standalone and puts 2 of those outlets on the side, making a setup more inconvenient.
All the outlets should be facing up like surgeX
That came as a shock to me. The only way to guard against voltage fluctuations originating from the power company is to have one of the models incorporating COUVS. Which in turn makes me question the usefulness of ZeroSurge, which as far as I know don't have technology comparable to COUVS.
However, this merits further investigation. I don't discard the possibility that I might have misunderstood some of the explanation.
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