Product review (5 stars): I love having peace of mind regardless of above ground power lines and unpredictable weather!
I live in an older home, in an older neighborhood where we still have above ground power lines/poles. Add to that the fact that I live in Pennsylvania where the weather is wickedly fickle and you can guess that the power to my home is less than consistent over the course of a year. My surge protectors get a work out from complete power failures that are apparently restored by an insane person at the power company who has to blink the power off and on about eight times before leaving it back on, to brown outs that are apparently triggered by a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil (or some other completely unfathomable reason that not one person at our power company can identify). In the past I was generally content buying my surge protectors based on price alone, just assuming that there was some kind of important governing body that tested them and made sure they actually protected against power surges before I bought them. I learned the hard way (to the tune of over a thousand do... Read more