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Surge Interceptor 8-Way Surge Board $44.50 @ DSE (50% off)

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Surge Interceptor 8-Way Surge Board $44.50 @ DSE (50% off)
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ltwo on 23/02/2011 - 17:39 dicksmith.com.au (313 clicks)
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A DSE in-house brand 8-way surge board for $44.50 each.
Half-price at the moment at Dick Smith.
Obviously + postage if you buy online, or you can order then pick-up from your nearest DSE store or just walk in and purchase.

Has Lifetime Guarantee & $100,000 Connected Equipment Warranty (check T&C if it fits your needs)

From product site
"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. Includes 1.8 metre phone and F-type coax patch cables. Lifetime guarantee with $100,000 Connected Equipment Warranty."

Electrical & Electronics Interceptor Surge Interceptor Surge Protection

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  • Crownanchor on 23/02/2011 - 17:55

    These were on sale recently for $20 from OO, or $25 from aother online seller, cant remember the name, and this one also has the $100000 warrenty.

    • ltwo on 23/02/2011 - 17:56

      still available? where? i want one

    • c64 on 23/02/2011 - 20:00

      for the more expensive ones, all the extra cost is an insurance premium. the cheaper boards don't come with insurance. in many cases the insurance is quite restricted (do you have to nominate the appliances in advance to be covered by the insurance?). read the insurance terms & conditions thoroughly. it is probably equivalent to all the other cheap boards but with insurance.

      • Jabba the Hutt on 23/02/2011 - 20:36

        I don't think focusing on the potential "gotchas" in T&Cs is as sensible a rule of thumb as it's cracked up to be - on this basis you probably wouldn't buy any insurance, or do many other things (e.g. installing the latest Adobe Flash update).

        Buyer feedback is probably going to be more valuable in a case like this. The experiences I've read about claiming on the Belkin warranty over the years have been largely positive. I've seen almost zero feedback for the other brands though (can recall reading only one report from a user who tried claiming on a DSE surge protector warranty - I believe it was successful), so they're more of a gamble.

  • GreatWhiteHunter on 23/02/2011 - 17:57

    These arent bad. You can often get them as a bonus with Norton Anti-Virus or similar products at DSE.

  • MaxiPower on 23/02/2011 - 18:26

    I seriously hate this product. I had this so called "Surge Interceptor" and it was seriously a piece of junk.

    The red switch on the board was actually setting off my house safety switch. Thinking it would be good to use on my PC, and then use the switch to turn everything off. Well turns out it wasn't a great idea, as the house safety switch was triggered. With the power going off, it ended up causing issues with our Freezer, and meant we lost a lot of food.

    Trying to get a refund from DSE was a nightmare, and was an experience I didn't appreciate and to this day refuse to deal with that particular store.

    Don't bother buying it.

  • chansthename on 23/02/2011 - 18:33

    I've had one of these for about a year, I know it was definitely at a lower price than this (can't remember exactly but in the $30s)

  • altomic on 23/02/2011 - 20:40

    I found one in a skip behind a DSE.

    plugged it in and it seems to work. hae been using it for 4 years as the "master switch" for my computer/stereo/lamp/fan in my study.

    i just find it handy as it has 8 sockets and one switch.

    as a surge protector? don't know. don't care.

    • issh on 23/02/2011 - 20:42

      I found one in a skip behind a DSE.

      lol nice, that's the spirit

      • c64 on 23/02/2011 - 22:12

        i've never tried dumpster diving. i'll put it on my list of things to do before i die!

        the best i've scored is a circa-1982 dick smith wizard game console + games in a kerbside collection. i also got 2 playstation 1s :)

  • Saiya on 23/02/2011 - 22:12

    I have this board for a few years now and I have only had 1 problem where the fault light came on. More than likely it may have been a surge. Went to the DSE store, showed them my receipt, then they exchanged on the spot no problems. This new one is still going strong.

    Because this has the insurance guarantee I would buy from a proper store rather than cheaply online. If something does go wrong its easier to claim, you just got to read the fine print if I remember correctly you cant have extension cords connected to the device or something like that.

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