Yep. Those "Soooooooge Protector" manufacturers have to have UL or ETL device certification. Try $50,000 + for the cert. THEN
They have to carry million dollar product liability insurance.
I do not feel like feeding the yacht sailing Yuppie executives at Underwriters Laboratories, or some chauffered limousine Wall Street insurance firm. Paying forty dollars for six dollars worth of parts ain't my bag.
Power strip "sooooooge protectors" are not fixable. Damned lucky to find one with 14 gauge wire. I have opened up too many and damaged a rib laughing myself sick.
With paralleled 20 mm MOVS their failure rate goes way down. With paralleled TVS diodes let's find out using reality if the bi-directional diodes "current hog". If transient positive and PIV spikes manage to overcome my authentic spike protection device they are going to have to work at it.
Should be able to tell from nearby curses and screams if a really bad series of events has hit line voltage.
Pianotuna and NinerBikes get theirs just as soon as I get access to the USPS. Yes and all but the Gas Discharge Tube devices have fuses. Fusing a device filled with gas and no conductor route would be an amateur's mistake.
