Ultimate Protection
May 30th, 2004
Although most of my place is now running wirelessly, there are still a few wires that must penetrate the delicate fabric of my condo. I don't trust those wires and have upgraded the protection against them. The APC Performance SurgeArrest 11 Outlet with Tel2/Splitter, Coax and Ethernet Protection (PF11VNT3) offers more bells and whistles than I could imagine.
- 10 foot power cord with NEMA 5-15P right angle plug
- 180 degree rotating cord retainer
- Adjustable cable management guide
- 11 outlets (6 transformer-spaced)
- 8 switched outlets (3 transformer-spaced)
- 3 always on outlets (each transformer-spaced)
- 2030 Joule rating
- RJ-11 Phone/Modem/Fax/DSL, splitter (2 lines, 4 wires) protection
- RJ-45 10/100 Base-T Ethernet & high speed telephone protection
- RG-6U gold plated Cable Modem/Cable TV/Antenna coaxial protection
- 60,000 amps peak surge current
- Site wiring fault LED
- Overload LED
- Safety shutters
- 6ft Gold Plated Coaxial Cable
- 6ft High Speed Internet Cable
- 6ft Network Cable
- $100,000 protected equipment guarantee
- Lifetime warranty
Plus it looks pretty and its only $28.11 with shipping.
Other contenders were:
- Energizer 10-Outlet Home Theater Surge Protector (ER-S700)
- Acoustic Research AR-10S 10 Outlet Surge Protector (AR-10S)
- Tripp lite PROTECT IT 10 Outlet Surge Protector (TLP1008TELTV)
- Rayovac Surge Protector (RSP3181)
- Belkin 9-Outlet SurgeMaster Gold Series Surge Protector (F9G930-10)
However, after all of this research, I'm now thinking I might need to get an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS), that way I can be protected even when the power goes out
Toys | Comments (2) | words in this post
I think you're right to consider a UPS. Chris X, one of my college roommates, had one, and it came in handy a couple of times. It was particularly good for him, because he frequently had lots of high memory programs operating at once, so losing power without warning frequently caused him to lose lots of info that he was working on. Good investment.
I'm not in the UPS market because of the fear of losing data, I just want to be able to keep watching TiVo even if the power goes out. I don't even know if I'll plug the 'puter into the UPS. The laptop has its own "UPS", it's called a battery.