One can be emotional and only entertain hearsay from strangers (who are speculated as friends and informed). Or one can do what is always necessary to separate lies from facts. Where is one honest fact in wirecutter.com and cnet.com? None provided. Those articles are so similar to what was broadcast on Radio Moscow from the Soviet Union. Articles order one what to think. Never once says why. And worst upon worse - it will not even discuss specification numbers.
How do those tiny thousand joules 'absorb' a surge that can be hundreds of thousands of joules? It does not have to. By failing on surges too tiny to damage any appliances, it get promoted here by the emotional.
How does its 2 cm protector parts 'block' what three miles of sky cannot? Only the emotional know otherwise.
Most only post their emotions (ie pompous) rather than realize the exact same sentence is only 100% technical (ie facts with numbers posted bluntly). Naysayer post tiny responses - also called soundbytes or executive summaries. And somehow foolishly associate their emotional attachments to honesty. That is why myths and lies live on.
Posted repeated were numbers that anyone with high school science can comprehend. But the more easily brainwashed, instead, ignore them, get emotional to deny those numbers, and intentionally ignore every professional citation. Or the so many fires crated by those near zero, magic box, protectors..
Every denial is only based in the emotions. Personal attacks (in the tradition of a lying president) replace facts with numbers.
Where does one person post a single fact that confirmed what wirecutter.com and cnet.com have posted? Yes that means the reply must quote it. Which explains so many lies - not one post with tens pf paragraphs that discuss science, facts, and numbers.
Where does wirecutter.com or cnet.com discuss any surge protectors from the so many other companies that every guy knows for integrity? They don't. Only advertising and myths from near zero joule (plug-in) protectors are parroted. Obviously those same people also knew Saddam had WMDs - when facts with numbers also said otherwise.
IEEE is quite clear about what does protection. Where did one person quote the IEEE, so many other professional sources, or research papers. No. Articles that only appeal to emotional are worshipped. Not once did the brainwashed ask for reasons why with numbers. Not once. So many here are apparently also manipulate by extremist political rhetoric. That explains so many personal attacks and no technical facts.
Elementary school science discussed how mouldy bread had maggots. Observation proved that mouldy bread breeds life - maggots. That is what someone else said. It was observed. So it must be true. Classic junk sciences.
Elementary school science discussed how stagnant water would be filled with insects. Obviously proving that stagnant water breeds life - mosquito larvae. Someone else said that. It was observed. So it must be true. Classic junk science.
My surge protector failed but an attached computer did not. Observation proved that protector worked. wirecutter.com and cnet.com said that. So it must be true. Classic junk science.
Any recommendation that does not say why using facts (ie from high school science) and does not cite numbers is the first indication of a scam. Who recites facts obviously is irrelevant. Only facts and numbers are relevant and live on their own merit. Not one naysayer has provided even one fact or number. The classic example of how easily so many can be brainwashed and why classic junk science lives on.
bcia is the classic example of someone who uses a penny to fix a fuse only because he saw it done Ignores the consequences. A classic example of a wacko extremist who knows only what the Central Committee of the Party has ordered him how to think. He rationalizes just like his hero Archie Bunker.
What to do? What to do? Read professions citations. Ignore advertising propaganda that promotes $3 power strips with ten cent protector parts selling for obscene profits. If Monster is selling the equivalent product, then it probably is a scam. Even APC admitted some 15 million protectors must be removed immediately due to so many hundreds of house fires only due to APC product alone. One can learn from professionals who say why with numbers (
https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/...ge_protector_how_else_do_you_protect/dq8qkdf/ ). Or one can automatically believe the so many brainwashed naysayers who only post emotions and personal attacks here.
If a wirecutter.com protectors is discovered in your luggage, a
Disney cruise ship will probably confiscate it. Those protectors do nothing useful. And have a nasty habit of creating fires. Cruise ships take that fire threat from near zero joule protectors very seriously. Obviously a majority hear ignore such facts. Since facts constantly contradict what was the first thing they were told - also called brainwashing.
Any effective solution will always answer this question. Where do hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly dissipate? Emotional extremists will again ignore that damning question. Because a protector is only as effective as its earth ground. wirecutter.com, et al did not say that. Numbers make one angry. So brainwashing proves it must not be true.