SURGE INTERCEPTOR 8-Way Board $39 Save $60 @ DickSmith Free Delivery

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nuggnuggs on 26/12/2009 - 07:05 dse.com.au (1518 clicks)
Last edited 11/08/2014 - 02:04 by 1 other user

Just in time for the electrial chrissy pressies we got over Christmas. Bought a few of these last time at the dicksmith sale. Pretty good price for a 8 main surge protector. Free delivery online or just pop in the store and purchase.

Provides surge protection for 8 mains outlets plus a phone line and TV coaxial cable socket. Includes coil⁄capacitor EMI filtering, 6 heavy-duty MOVs, varistor and gas discharge arrestors, protection status indicators, 10A circuit breaker plus 2,000 Joule and 60,000A maximum mains surge current rating. Incl. 1.8m phone & F-type coax patch cables. Lifetime guarantee and $100,000 Connected Equipment Warranty.

Surge protection for 8 mains outlets, phone⁄ADSL line and TV coaxial cable
Powerful 2,000J surge absorption rating
Includes phone & coax patch cables

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  ThePump on 26/12/2009 - 12:05

  How good is this board?

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    Trance N Dance on 26/12/2009 - 17:22

    it's great for the price, considering it is a lifetime guarantee with $100k cover (but somehow i have a feeling the terms and conditions might be a little restrictive)

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      HueyData on 26/12/2009 - 20:12

      Previous related discussions here and here.

      The subrogation of connected equipment warranties under other insurance policies (i.e. home & contents insurance) is an interesting matter.

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  samfisher5986 on 26/12/2009 - 17:29

  There is no way this is worth the original $99.

  The 100k cover is most likely won't work in most situations.

  $39 is a very average price except that you get a TV coaxial cable socket which others don't have.

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  Trance N Dance on 26/12/2009 - 20:26

  i just thought of something….. isnt ur fuse in that box outside your house ment to protect u from surges :P

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    browser on 26/12/2009 - 21:46

    No, the fuse protects overloading, it's not quick enough to arrest electrical surge. Btw, domestic surge protector usually only works once (a single surge protection), then it becomes a normal power board.

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      happykamper on 27/12/2009 - 05:02

      Really??? Then why do they have a reset button?

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        browser on 27/12/2009 - 09:55

        I think that button resets the overload circuit but not 100% sure. The surge protection can survive a few strikes but not forever.

        Cheap surge filters are all based around components called Metal-Oxide Varistors (MOVs). MOVs pass current only when the voltage across them is above a set value, and they react to overcurrent in microseconds. A circuit breaker or fuse can take tens of milliseconds to trip or blow; that's much too slow for spike suppression.

        Unfortunately, MOVs will only work a few times, at best. The more work they have to do, the closer to death they come. A surge/spike powerboard with a toasted MOV is now… just a powerboard.

        Better surge/spike boards are meant to tell you when their MOV's died via a little light or even a buzzer, but they commonly, actually, don't. A surge/spike filter that's been in use for some years and still reports its MOV as perfectly healthy is, probably, lying.

        Read more here: http://www.dansdata.com/gz039.htm. Basically if the spec sheet mentions MOV rating then you know the surge protection has limited lifetime.

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      Trance N Dance on 27/12/2009 - 09:36

      oh ok
      cheers for the info

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  Jabba the Hutt on 27/12/2009 - 11:34

  Pretty good deal I would say. You're getting the lifetime guarantee and connected equipment warranty almost for free, as this is nearly as cheap as the 8-outlet Cabacs from Dealsdirect-type sites.

  Seen one or two positive comments from people making claims with the DSE board but yeah, fact is there's not as much info here as there is for Belkin boards. Nevertheless the feedback on the Belkins has long indicated these warranties aren't necessarily as worthless as suggested in the oft-quoted Dan's Data article. His remarks were based on a reading of the T&Cs rather than user experience making a claim.