Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration

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• Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NEVER cheap out on these. Get you a good surge protector, it can save your life and home.

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• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a power strip not a surge protector.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It should still be properly grounded.

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    • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not generally how they are sold. A power strip looks like this. A surge protector is grounded.

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  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The amount of people I need to explain this to is the mildly infuriating part.

    One time when packing up after a LAN party, a friend of mine grabbed my surge protector instead of his power strip. A couple days later I was like “Hey we swapped some gear by mistake. I think you took my surge protector and I have your power strip” and he was was like “Oh well I already set my computer back up at home, so maybe we just keep them because it’s the same thing”

    Nah, my dude. Mine is an expensive surge protector that I put my expensive computer equipment on. Yours is a $10 power strip from the bargain bin at Home Depot and I would never plug things I care about into it.

    He did swap back with me but acted like it was such a bother.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      friends like this aren’t friends, they’re jerks waiting to use people adjacent to them.

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Amazon, temu, wish etc. are all complicit.

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• M137@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recommend IKEA for anything like this on the cheaper end.

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• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My apartment has fucked wiring, its killed things through decent surge protectors.

  At this point all of my computers that I run daily are on APC UPS’s.

  Good luck nuking shit through one of those.

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve gone through a lot of APC products. They don’t seem to last in my experience.

    But I agree a proper UPS or PDU is important for a computer.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You have to replace the batteries every 2-3 years

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      APC used to be rock solid; I have a unit by my foot that’s had the battery changed 3 times, once after a nasty power surge / lightning storm, the other two times after a decade of use. IIRC it’s a 2001 model. Replacement battery was $22 last time I changed it, just after covid.

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  • twkm@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Be sure to use an online type that always powers the output via the batteries, rather than a backup type the switches to battery after the input looks bad.

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• JelleWho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always buy the ones marked with either 3680W or 2.5mm2

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