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you know if you think about it powering your electronics is a lot like cooking a

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waffle just the right amount of heat will give you a delicious breakfast item

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you can coat in maple syrup but too much and you'll end up with a charred pile of

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crap so similarly the sensitive equipment inside your PC home theater

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gaming console or whatever else needs a certain amount of electricity to run

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properly and too much will cause malfunctions or even destroy it entirely

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so the power that comes out of your outlet on your wall is actually

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susceptible to voltage surges so that is

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why many people use surge protectors to keep their stuff safe from nasty

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electrical mishap so then how do these work and what can they actually protect

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against it might be helpful to First understand what a surge protector isn't

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it is not the same as a regular power

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strip which provides no form of surge protection or suppression or anything

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like that it is not the same as an uninterruptible power supply or UPS

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which provides emergency backup power during an outage and it is not the same

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as a power conditioner which can clean up mild interference that causes

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electrical noise if the power running to your home isn't the best instead a surge

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protector does exactly what it says it protects against voltage surges which

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happen whenever there's an unintended change in electrical charge somewhere on

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the circuit that's going to your power outlet cuz voltage is basically just a

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difference in charge that allows current to flow so too much voltage can cause

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too much current which can fry your electronics although surges are often

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associated with lightning strikes the most frequent culprit is actually power

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hungry appliances though things like bad

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wiring and problems with the power grid itself can also cause surges so then how

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does a surge protector help whenever it detects a surge

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it actually shunts the extra electricity through a semiconducting material to a

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grounding wire which connects to that third prong on your plug this will send

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excess voltage back to the return line in the building's wiring which might

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trip a circuit breaker but won't damage whatever is plugged into the surge

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protector but before you rush out to buy one remember that all surge protectors

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have limitations most importantly they don't last forever every surge protector

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is ated for a certain number of jewels a measurement of energy that it can absorb

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and once a certain number of jewels hit your surge protector it won't offer any

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more protection and hardly anything will save you from a really strong power

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surge such as from a nearby lightning strike well gee lonus okay then how do I

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even know what to look for there are so many kinds that try to lure me in with

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fancy packaging and promises that they'll protect me from the hammer of

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Thor or whatever well first off Thor's hammer is actually a physical object and

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not really anything to do with electricity and second of all make sure

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you get one that is certified by Underwriters Laboratories or UL a

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consulting company that tests Electronics equipment there are a lot of

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Cheapo options out there that haven't been independently tested and may not

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actually protect anything also pay attention to the clamping voltage which

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is what the surge protector will reduce the voltage too although the power that

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comes out of a North American Outlet is 120 volts most Electronics can actually

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deal with small surges on their own so

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anything with a clamping voltage below 400 volts is probably fine and as I

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mentioned earlier you'll also want a protector That's rated for a high number

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of jewels so it'll last longer and protect against larger surges 600 is a

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good place to start but there are plenty of units that offer much more protection

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then finally many manufacturers will replace fried equip up to a certain

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dollar amount so make sure you read the fine print carefully so that you don't

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end up losing you know half a million bucks of stuff that you had plugged into

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your surge protector and have to haul all that stuff to the scrapyard but that

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