Belkin Components F9M923-08 9-Outlet Maximum SurgeMaster
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Customer Review: Big and Bad
Summary: 5 Stars
Plenty of room for every plug. Has all the extra features and is a great investment.Customer Review: GREAT PRODUCT
Summary: 5 Stars
Its well designed well made. Hopefully I will not need to use the surge protector.Customer Review: Surge Protector
Summary: 5 Stars
Trust me, works!!!! I ordered two more, now I own a combined total of five !!!!Customer Review: high marks
Summary: 5 Stars
Surge protector lived up to all my expectations. was easy to use and very neat.Customer Review: Great Product at the Right Price
Summary: 4 Stars
The Belkin SurgeMaster is great for the price. The price much better than what you will find at the store.
KEY ITEMS I discovered in searching for a new surge protector:
*** Faster response time is more critical than number of joules.
*** All you want is for your unit to be disconnected from the harmful surge.
Therefore don't waste your money in over-extending your coverage of Joules. The Belkin SurgeMaster will provide adequate coverage with similar technology.
Now...as an alternative...I have owned the Power Sentry's Power Blocker II (asin b0006hvigc) for a year and it has a faster response time. I am using that for my entertainment center which has more sensitive and large dollar equipment which I need to protect (don't waste your money on Monster products).
What follows is info I received from Power Sentry...which is owned by Fiskars:
The amount of transient (lightning) joules the Power Blocker II can absorb is about 900 joules. This number does not take into account the amount of joules that the Power Blocker II (PB2) switch is eliminating. The response time of the MOV components (the 900 joules part) is < 1 nanosecond. The response time of the PB2 switch is about 2 milliseconds. The way the Power Blocker II works is that the MOVs will clamp first and if the surge is of long duration, > 2 milliseconds, the PB2 switch will open and disconnect all possible electrical output paths. The way other surge protectors work is that the MOVs will clamp, and if the surge is of long duration, the MOVs will heat up and burnout a thermal sensitive fuse placed beside the MOVs. The heating and burnout time of the fuse is > 2 seconds, typically about 10-30 seconds.
Other surge protectors attempt to absorb all of the surge energy entering the protector even though it may be excessive and cause MOV degradation. The Power Blocker II detects when surge energy reaches a damaging level and disconnects all MOVs and equipment connections, thus interrupting the surge. Therefore its MOVs are much less likely to suffer degradation or "wear out". Because of this rapid disconnecting feature, which blocks any further surge energy, in effect the joules of energy attempting to enter the unit and equipment are unlimited because everything has been disconnected.
The MOVs are not degraded when the unit trips as described. Therefore the Power Blocker II should operate much longer than conventional surge protectors and will survive power company mistakes and wiring faults when others surge protectors will nearly always be destroyed. So far we have not received any Power Blocker II returns with a MOV failure.