MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
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.
Sorry you have a run of bad luck with premade surge protectors..
I have indeed had good luck in repairing QUALITY built ones like Panamax, APC, Tripplite.. Those indeed use a min of 14 gauge wire not only in the line cord but INSIDE..
Somewhere around my junk piles I have a 15yr old Panamax that took a pretty good surge, shorted the bidirectional diodes and blew the internal protection fuse.. Well built unit..
Never bothered ordering new diodes for it and just tossed it into the "round to it" box since I had other surge protectors..
