A surge protector will help for certain power surges. A lightning strike will likely overspeed a typical surge protector (I recall one strike at an apartment I lived in in Florida, at about 6:00 am or so on awakening, I saw a spark come from my climate control box and travel to the center of my living room carpet at the instant of the thunder, it wiped out an electronic phone I had at the time.)
Surge protector
This morning we had a power surge. First one I ever experienced. It knocked out the sub woofer components of my GoldenEar Triton one speakers. In my ignorance I had them plugged into the wall rather than a surge protector. Soooo it blew the amplifiers in the sub woofers. It’s going to be a costly proposition: $500 for the amplifiers plus God knows how much the dealer is going to charge for coming to my house. (He’s very reluctant to do it, wants me to lug the 80 lbs speakers to the store.
Meanwhile, I’m having to listen to bass-less speakers for the foreseeable future.
So, the moral of the story is plug everything into a surge protector.
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