>Saves your TV, PC and/or console

>Plug TP link in to surge protector
>Use it for two days
>Throw box out along with instructions
>Decide to read the instructions
>Specifically says do not plug in to surge protector
>Plug it in to socket on the wall
>Fry router and have no internet for few days
:)

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>>388119009
you poor soul

>>388118617
Yeah, I have 2, it's pretty great to have time to save and gracefully shut down if juice goes out for whatever reason or just fluctuates like mad.

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>Never bothered with a surge protector
>Wake up one day
>Go to turn on PC
>All of a sudden wont post
>Whip out some spare parts i have for troubleshooting
>During a storm that night a power surge friend my motherboard and PSU
>Mfw

On the bright side, it gave me an excuse to upgrade to an R5 1600x.

>>388119708
>he thinks they're just friends
>anon got cucked by a power surge

>>388118617
Which brands are the best? We had 25 APCs die at the same time at work. Shit was crazy.

>>388119708
op's pic is actually a battery backup unit to supply power for a short period if your circuit loses power.

>>388118617
until the battery starts emitting sulphur gas after a few years lol

>>388119817
>die
Did the electronics really die or just batteries?
APCs don't have the most flawless bad battery detection and often when someone asks me to bring new UPS I just chanage battery, run a test or two and they are happy they didn't have to shell out for the new one.

>>388119708
I got my motherboard fried even with a surge protector.
It was a POS cheap one, also I think you can have that happen even through a network cable.

>>388120065
I love sulphur gas

>>388120125
Both, the batteries died so they were all beeping, and the plugs that weren't on the battery weren't working either. Some of the units were giving off a strong smell too.

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>>388120175
>also I think you can have that happen even through a network cable
Sure. Most UPSes have ethernet / phone line surge protector too and APC also does stand alone surge protectors for TP cables though they were somewhat expensive.

>>388119009
Explain, why plugging it in the surge protector fucks it?

>>388118617
>>388119708
What are these even? Do Americans have shit electricity too now? How is that even possible I don't even?

>>388121407
America has shit everything

>>388121079
He must be using powerline ethernet.

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>>388121516

>>388121407
>What are these even?
Uninterruptible Power Sources, they fix juice trouble like fluctuations and outages (short) and have surge protectors too.
>Do Americans have shit electricity too now?
Old building with old wiring tend to have shitty juice. That's not American thing.
Also outages happen because of lightning strikes, storms, winds breaking transmission lines.

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>always unplug computer during a thunderstorm because I don't want to risk it even though I do have a surge protector
Anyone else do this?

>>388121919
Oh, I forgot the point of the post: plugging those routers into a surge protector just lowers your bandwidth, it doesn't ruin the device. He was either lying about the router frying or the router frying had nothing to do with plugging it into the surge protector.

>>388121407

It's called having poor infrastructure. Major sections of the electrical grid were built in the '50s and haven't seen a proper upgrade since then.

>>388122075
He posted that router fried after he pulled it out of surge protector and plugged it into unprotected wall wart.

>>388121407
>implying power surges are only in america
you probably only think of robots when you hear the word transformer

>>388122075
The router fried when he plugged it into the wall socket.

>>388122198
>>388122239
Yeah, but the surge protector almost certainly didn't magically ruin the device and cause that to happen. It was just a coincidence.

>>388121079
Didn't he plug it in the wall which fucked it? English is not my first language, apologies for lacking reading comprehension.

>buy UPS
>can't wait for the next power out
>hope family and/or friends are nearby to appreciate everything going dark
>except my PC

Fuck its so satisfying. Be in the middle of a VIDYA session and just keep on rolling through a black out like its no big deal.

>>388121079
Might be because most of the cheap ones use approximated/stepped sine wave.

>>388122058
Yeah, I don't trust surge protectors after I found out they still go bad after some time even with no blackouts. Don't they also go bad after one use? What if you were out of the house when the power went out but it came back on before you got back and never knew?

>>388121407
America still has most of its power delivered via above-ground power lines that get knocked down in bad weather or when some asshole drives their car into them. It's the downside of having a government as de-centralized as ours. The individual districts that are responsible for maintaining our utilities don't get the kind of money they'd need to tear everything up and replace them. They just get enough to put them back up on the pole.

>>388122058
I only do it during severe thunderstorms. The ones that sound like the thunder is literally next to me.

>>388122215
Well electricity isn't halal so naturally a European wouldn't know anything about it.

They're expensive and you need to swap out the battery routinely even if you never end up using the thing.

>>388122058
Everyone should do this. Surge protectors don't do shit against lightning.

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>>388122442
>buy weather machine
>can't wait for the next thunder storm
>hope neighbors notice me turning off the rain and lightning
>but only over my house

>>388122613
>They're expensive
Don't know what counts as expensive for you but shelling out roughly 100EUR to protect 1500+ seems like a good investment.
>swap out the battery routinely even if you never end up using the thing.
If by routinely you mean every 5-6 years then yes.
The batteries are quite cheap though, just don't buy APC branded ones. When you peel the silver sticker you'll find out it's standard brand batter you can buy elsewhere for less than half the price.

>>388122613
This.

UPS shill go out.

>>388122701
Dumb cat that would be like putting an umbrella over yourself, the storm is still going to fuck your cathouse up

In japan i can't even ground my pc or consoles
living life on the edge

i havee one of these badboys. i can play without worrying if my pc will fry / keep playing when the power goes out.

Playing vidya during storms is the best, no way I'm gonna stop and turn my stuff off.

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>>388123453
FUCK

>>388122442
Have my router hooked up to UPS, when the power goes out it's the only wireless AP still standing.

is this a /g/ meme?

>thunder storm
>just switch the surge protector off

Unless your socket is hooked up to a lightning rod it won't kill your PC

>>388123730
Unless you're unlucky fuck with ADSL and get both router and MOBO fried through phone line.

>>388122936
is that true? my brother told me replace the battery every 1-3 years for MAX EFFICIENCY.

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No grounded contacts so cant use surge protector. It all goes straight in...

>>388119009
The wiiu manual says this shit too. Why?

>>388123894
ADSL ? Do people still use that ?

>>388119817
APC is the best brand in the market but lightning can't be stopped

>>388123996
Usually the UPS will tell you when the battery is bad and lots of them even have monitoring option with calibration and test software where you can see the battery capacity and all the other stuff like remaining battery time on current load, info about charging cycles etc...
Your brother probably meant that as the battery gets older the capacity drops even without much use but changing them each year is overkill and after 3 you're going to lose a few minutes compared to new ones so that doesn't seem very good either.
If you want to test it yourself it's simple. After getting fresh batteries, charge to full, disconnect power and time how long your PC will run on battery power, repeat each year and when the capacity/time gets unsatisfactory for you buy new batteries.
>>388124635
Well, getting fiber to places with scarcer population is still somewhat expensive.

>>388122473
And?

>>388118617
Just game on a laptop, if this is a concern!

>>388124957
They could install some VDSL or something.

>>388125175
Probably yes. Point was that your router and possibly computer will get fried when the lightning strikes the phone lines.

>PC
>His motherboard/power supply don't have their own surge protection
Disgusting.

>>388118617

how long would a UPS last with 2x GTX 1080tis running full load? 2hrs?

>>388125598
10 minutes

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>Live in florida
>Thunderstorms ever night
>Never unplug my computer
>Never have any problems

>>388125598
Depends on the UPS, there's a large selection of capacities.
2 hours is kind of a overkill though.
UPS isn't meant to be used a power source for extended periods of time you'd be better served with a generator if you lose power for that long regularly.

>>388118617
thanks for the reminder anon, I need to get one.

>>388118617
There was one time I went to Staples to try to buy a 5 dollar power strip. Some asshole tried to sell me one of those $200 apc. I told him hells no. He started talking shit about me and how I'm stupid. And yes he was a niggar. I told him to fuck off.

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>leave computer in sleep mode when not in use
>severer thunderstorm warning
>shut down computer and unplug all the cords

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>>388118617
RIP little guy. You did your job.

>>388125778
It's like a lottery but if you 'win' this one you're going to cry a lot for your RIG, saves, funny cat pictures and rare frogs you didn't backup.

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>He doesn't power-off his computer and unplug the surge protector it's connected to every night
Are you guys asking for fried components or something?

The winter fucks with my electricity so I had to buy one of these last year since the outages kept corrupting my PS4 hard drive

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>>388126041
>unplug surge protector
Anon, what is the fucking point then?

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>>388126146
Whoops wrong smuk

>>388125843

Was the brand Monster?

>>388126239
For when you have it on dummy. If it's off then you eliminate ALL chances of it getting fried by unplugging anything connected to the outside (power, Ethernet cords).

>Tornado warning
>Good thing I have surge protector
>After house wrecked by tornado my consoles surge protector no where to be found
>REEEEEEE

But in all seriousness do tornadoes occur in other parts of the world?

>>388125956
>he doesn't back up his rare frogs

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>>388125778
Literally me

>>388126327
Europoor here, we only have really fast and powerful winds occasionally, the kind that will rip the roof of a house off and blow it a few hundred meters away, but no tornadoes.
Probably too many hills around for that.

>>388126041
>not falling asleep to the sounds of your computer
>not watching ASMR girlfriend videos while you sleep
NO

>>388124469
Because you should not plug in a surge protector into another surge protector 9 times out of 10. That, and consoles with external supplies like the original Xbox One and the Wii U have built in overload switches in the adapter. If they get set, an unplug will usually reset it with 20 minutes.

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>>388126778
>Not hiding your PC behind 7 surge protectors

>>388123142
Its easy to do.....get a ground rod and some number 8 bare.....

>>388122058
I do for big storms or when my town has rolling blackouts

>>388122058
I switch off all the lights and appliances when there's a blackout because you never know when there'll be a power surge due to the electricity suddenly coming back on. I don't unplug the refrigerator though.

>>388118617
I use a voltage regulator. At least if there's a power surge, the regulator will handle it and if it can't, only the regulator will get fried.

>>388119009
What? Why would your router get fried if you switched where you plugged it? It's not like plugging it into the surge protector changed anything inside your router. What did you plug into the socket on your wall, the router or the surge protector?

Here in Britain we have a lightning tax we pay at the end of every year, and you need Surge Protection insurance to even own a surge protector

>>388129339
I have a inkling this is a troll but i'm not sure

>>388128237
I am confus as well. Mine acts weird sometimes and I have no clue why.

>>388126041
>unplug the surge protector
Why? Hitting on off switch should be enough
>>388126239
To save energy because even stand by mode drains

>>388122517
>What if you were out of the house when the power went out but it came back on before you got back and never knew
Most surge protectors have an indicator to show that it's gone off.

>>388118617
i dont live in a third world shithole with shitty electricity providers or blackouts.

>>388122517
When mine tripped it fried and the room smelt like ozone so you definitely won't miss that it went off.

>>388118617
>live in FL
>have it
>thunder hit my house and fried the Ethernet port on my mobo
thanks to that I have to buy a network card

>>388130387
>there are no storms in fairyland where i live
Good for you anon.

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>there are people in this thread who think any power strip is a surge protector and are talking about it in that context RIGHT NOW
quick, what metrics are used to determine surge protection? if you don't know then you never bought one because it was more expensive

>>388123894
phone line ports are pretty common on these units anon. i got mine like 25 years ago for dialup. it wasn't luck that you neglected it

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>>388126326
serious question to all the "super carfeful" people like this

have you ever, or known anyone to ever had something get "fried" from a power surge?

i've used low end walmart-tier surge protectors on my gayman PCs since i was 10

everyone i know plays guitar and we plug our shit directly into walls all the time without second guessing it

nothing has ever died, maybe we've just never had a power surge

>>388130970
I guess something like impedance or inductance, a impulsive current would be filtered by a big enough impedance (low pass filter)

>>388126239

Has anyone shopped this into the john Lennon pic?

>>388130970
>it wasn't luck that you neglected it
Follow the reply chain further up.
I was just reminding other anon that unplugging the power cord might not be enough.

>>388129339
>>388129584
no it's true, the cops write you up if you can't present a surge protection license during a routine house sweep

>>388118617
I have one of the larger ones that is like a mini pc tower. Helps a lot since power outages became common ever since they started doing construction on the roads near me.

>>388131013
Happened to my PSU/Motherboard, and I actually had a good power strip. It's why I now have a UPS for expensive shit.

>>388131735
For what purpose?
Why do you have to pay for lightning strikes?
Why do you have to have a permit for a fucking surge protector?
Is there a ratio behind that or did they just say "hey, we can milk some more dosh out of our subjects, they won't rebel anyway lmao"?

>>388131013
it depends on where you live mostly I'd say. If you live in an area where you get thunderstorms a lot it's a bigger issue, but even then it's incredibly rare for it to happen. Better safe then sorry if you don't want to risk your terabytes of porn and vidya.

>>388131013
>one day it happens
>lose half your expensive PC parts which might include the HDD
>didn't have a backup either cause fuck being careful

>>388118617
I got one for Christmas years ago and I still love mine, so comfy to have the power kick or go out and still be able to play

>>388131013
Electricity is one of the things that you should never go on the cheap end for.

So, does continuing playing vidya drain the battery really fast? What's a good one to buy?

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>>388118617
>saves your pc/console/tv
>conditions power
>battery backup

Step up faggot.

>>388123542
i have a slightly shittier model, these things are godsends

What brand of UPS should I shoot for? Probably going to need something 1000+watts for my supercomputer + 1 with a small TV. There aren't many reviews for anything 900+.

Surge protection is a scam.

>>388123542
I need to replace the battery in mine.

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>>388132929

>not using common sense and disconnecting your shit from any power source when not in use

never in my life I had issues with power surges

Is there any point in having these in the UK? Getting actual thunder and lightning is so fucking rare I can't even remember the last time we had it. I think maybe there was 2 bolts 2 months ago?

>>388133202
Well yes because you can still suffer from Power outages, Tripped circuit breaker, Short circuits and Inductive spikes

>>388133338
UKs power system is more reliable than americas.

>>388133024
>one in a million chance of losing a 300$ electronic appliance or part of a PC
>lol better pay an extra 60$ just to be safe :)
Skipping it on average you will lose 0.0003$, sorry to say but you just got cucked by capitalism.
>b-but thats an exaggeration!
To BREAK EVEN on this "investment" even if you get a cheap end surge protector worth 60$ you'd need to have a 1 in 5 chance of an appliance getting friend by an electric surge. Which is incredibly and wildly exaggerated. Surges are super rare and are most definitely not worth getting jewed over.

>>388132094
Well the electrical grid is public-interest service so they have to make sure everyone is using it responsibly.
Don't be so selfish.

>>388132632
You're not supposed to continue anything unless you're confident that the power will be back in a few minutes.
Those things only last like 5-15 minutes and are only supposed to buy you time to save your shit and properly shut down your PC.

Why are americans so worried about electricity? In Brazil we have electric showers and nobody has ever died of it.

>>388133559
>electric showers
BR, I've had the displeasure of having to use one of those things and they fucking SUCK. Barely heats the water at all.

>>388133526
How is a surge protector a irresponsible use of the electrical grid?
And the lightning tax? What about it?

>>388133494
Inductive spikes has nothing to do with how reliable the network is.

>>388133756
The idea is your license ensures you know only to purchase government approved surge protectors, third party ones are unreliable and dangerous.
The lightning tax is basically a tax on the electricity gained by the grid via lightning. It's public airspace so the lightning is technically government owned electricity, we need to pay for it.

>>388133559
>>388133673
>electric showers
Why not just get a big boiler instead.

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>>388133951
>The lightning tax is basically a tax on the electricity gained by the grid via lightning. It's public airspace so the lightning is technically government owned electricity, we need to pay for it.
What

>>388134035
I actually have no idea why BRs dont use boilers. Might have something to do with natural gas laws or shit.

>>388134148
What?
It's not that much of an issue. Getting an electricity license is way easier than a driving license or a digging license.

>>388133951
>The lightning tax is basically a tax on the electricity gained by the grid via lightning
That's fucking bullshit.
Bullshit i tell you!
Lightning is a impulsive current, unless you have a capacitor bank the size of a fucking mountain you ARE NOT GOING TO HARNESS ENERGY FOR IT! EVER!

And what problem is a shitty surge protector? It doesn't affect the rest of the grid, it affects you alone! Unless the grid is so shit that a short circuit in your home knocks down the whole fucking neighborhood of course.

>tfw get power from another town
>power goes out when it's sunny here, but raining there
Looks like I need one of these then.

>>388134035
because it's expensive, an electrical shower is like $10 and you can just plug it into the wall and it works just fine

ITT anons living in shitholes without redundant fuses across their house.

>>388133497
It was already said it's a lottery.
If you feel lucky then ignore.
I already had a client that payed 3K Euro for business data recovery to Recovery lab because he thought it can't happen to him too.
He was wrong. Of course losing some saves and 4chan meme pictures won't hurt as much when that happens to some random /v/tard.

>>388134316
Long term investment

>>388131946
you know that any good strip comes with a warranty good up to a certain dollar amount right?

>>388134274
See
>>388134296

>>388118617
Fuck this thing, one side went dead after a couple of years and moving it around when cleaning was a bitch.

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>>388134430
>fuses against lightning
Have fun with that buddy.

>>388134296
>Lightning is a impulsive current, unless you have a capacitor bank the size of a fucking mountain you ARE NOT GOING TO HARNESS ENERGY FOR IT! EVER!
That's ridiculous. The electricity has gone into the ground, at some point it finds its way to a wire and rejoins the grid.
And when it comes to surge protectors, better safe than sorry. No harm in making sure everyone using the grid is responsible with it.
That's why we have gun licenses, driving licenses, digging licenses, tv licenses and knife licenses.

>>388134595

Have you considered that the tallest point of most houses - the TV aerial - has its own ground?

>>388134617
>That's ridiculous. The electricity has gone into the ground, at some point it finds its way to a wire and rejoins the grid.
nice

>>388133497
>one in a million chance of losing a 300$ electronic appliance or part of a PC
From what orifice did you pulled those numbers?

why are people treating a UPS as a surge protector only?

>>388134617
>The electricity has gone into the ground, at some point it finds its way to a wire and rejoins the grid.
That's not how it works, at all.

>>388134765
All right then mr genius where does the electricity go?

>>388131297
He'd probably kill Yoko.

>>388134685
And what does that exactly have to do with fuses?

>>388134824
wejustdontknow.jpg

>>388134824
Not back into the grid because the isolation are meant to keep electricity out and in. The electricity that you get from a lighting road gets grounded and "nullified" so to speak because earth has terrible conductivity

>>388133338

I haven't seen a power outage in fucking YEARS. Is the American powergrid so stone age it actually has power outages?

>>388135260
Ohhh it all just magically disappears? Now who's talking bullshit?
We pay taxes for a reason. Lightning tax, income tax, public speech tax etc. all have a reason.

>>388135346
I live in a rural area in Wisconsin, there was a power outage like 2 days ago.

>>388125872
I feel you nigga.

>>388133497
>one in a million chance
You are off by several magnitudes.
I'm an IT drone taking care of POS terminals and back office PCs for small businesses and retail store chains mostly.
Our branch takes care of roughly 2,5K PCs and during the summer storms we usually deal with 30-70 cases of computers or components fried by lightning strikes and power surges. Even if the business owners are complete and total jews and don't use UPSes on client machines you can bet your ass that every single one of them has a proper big UPS on his servers.

Let's say I get one of these things, is it 100% to leave my shit on during a thunderstorm? Because if yes I might consider.

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>keeping your PC/electronics on all the time
whats it like being digital slave master? Electronics have cognitive abilities, perception of events happening around them and have artificial intelligence. they may not be human but they can still process information and data of their surroundings. one day you will regret tiring out your machine when it fucks youou on all the time as its personal slaver wife and keeps you on all the time a personal save. electronic people already exist, there are some E-people in this thread right now learning from these posts
#robots&humanscoexistance
#robocuck
#RAMingmywife
#BRC
#JohnMadden

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>>388135569
Lighting is not a power source. It's too unreliable, moves around, and unpredictable. The lighting that strikes a house or a power line or something connected to the grid does not transform into power for general use.
>"Oh boy a storm is happening now I'll finally be able to run my pc AND my electronic dildo for tonight since I have more power!"
Above does not happen nor will it never happen. It shorts things out because it's too much power for the system which is why we have surge protectors. Where it goes is directly to your pc's motherboard and fries it. We don't have giant batteries storing power from lighting strikes.

>>388136053
Nigger

>>388136048
i got this for my server plus all my network components (modem, router, switch, wireless ap) and it's been tripped a good 10 times this year. only one time by lightning. works like a champ. even connected via usb and server knows how much longer the battery will last and shuts down when under 10 minutes is remaining. it was nice to have internet during the outage until the power came back on even if i was stuck using my laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-CP850PFCLCD-Sinewave-Compatible-Mini-Tower/dp/B00429N18S/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1503609348&sr=8-4&keywords=cyberpower+sine+wave+ups

>>388136182
>It's too unreliable, moves around, and unpredictable.
nigga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NpyA2OuaE

>>388136445
this is a bit expensive, I mean I could get it but surely there must be something cheaper for a low end user such as me

>>388136048
>is it 100%
No. But it gets close.
Don't know about others but APC even offers semi large financial guaranties if your stuff gets fried while using their tech. Read the small print though.

>>388136182
Yeah okay anon. I guess a whole nation paying lightning tax is irrelevant compared to your vast personal knowledge.

>>388136292
>N*gger
ELECTRONIC LIVES MATTER, motherboards are geting fried, toothpaste applied instead of thermal paste, whats next an electronicphobe in the whitehouse? vote Arnie2040, he is back

but really though turn off your fucking PC and let it rest, stop wasting the electricity

>>388136683
im sure there are. the tricky part about ups is the kind of signal they output. some shit ones output a square wave signal that is incompatible with newer power supplies. the newer ups's output a pure sine wave that should work with all power supplies so i would say to make sure get one with that.

>>388124957
i havent checked my power consumption in a while. when i game and the power goes out i usually get 45minutes till it shuts off

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>>388136780
>toothpaste applied instead of thermal paste

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>enter this thread
>hear thunder rolling in

got two. I need a third. I lose power a few times a year. Just for a second, but its messed soem stuff up before.

>>388118617
Never felt the need to get one because I never heard a single story about fried motherboards from anyone around me ever. I guess european engineering is just better than burgerneering.

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>>388136908
Stop Laughing

>>388122524

I mean, you're right, but you also have to figure in that the country is very large and the population is much less dense than in other first world countries, so expensive underground utilities are harder to install, service, or even justify.

Not like power surges are an american phenomenon or anything though.

>>388131013
>tv lost function to half buttons / screen was displaced
>outlets stopped working
>my gamecube died once

>>388131013
my 100 watt marshall amp head fried big time from a power surge, small puff of smoke and everything. the blowback fuse was such a huge pain to locate and it's never been the same after that, it keeps blowing the fuse instantly so it's permanently damaged.

use surge protectors, that one hurt to lose

>>388137501
>population is much less dense
>America
lel

you're meant to replace your surge protectors every 6 monthes

>>388137674
when i was a kid i had a fucking clapper that i ran an extension cord to under my bed and had a lamp plugged into. clapped for my lamp one day and that fucker decided to try and burn the house down.

>>388121079
>Explain, why plugging it in the surge protector fucks it?

Because a UPS has a faster trigger, so you will have a situation where the surge happens, the ups kicks to battery, then the surge kicks and because the surge is between the ups and battery you get aids. All very sad.

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>mfw my computer is connected to a extension cord connected to a surged protector connected to another surge protector

>>388120175
surge protectors have limited life. they will distribute power forever but after a certain number of hits adds up to whatever joules rating it is rated at, it will no longer protect your gear. I wish there was a way to monitor it but you just have to refresh them every once in a while.

>>388133951
>(((government approved surge protectors)))

i understand not buying shitty products thatll short out the block. but come the fuck on. we need to free you and ourselves

>>388138032
It's public safety man. We have government approved building standards and government approved walking standards, it's to keep people safe.

>>388134750
i use my to shut down my computer safely if need be. i unplug it after i shut down the pc anyway

>>388134617
>That's ridiculous. The electricity has gone into the ground, at some point it finds its way to a wire and rejoins the grid.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT ARE YOU AMERICAN? HAVE YOU EVER READ ANYTHING ABOUT ELECTRICITY?
ELECTRONS GO FROM THE POINT OF HIGHER POTENTIAL TO THAT OF LOWER POTENTIAL, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS CALLED A POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE, OR VOLTAGE IN LAYMAN TERMS.
THE GROUND IS ALWAYS CONSIDERED TO BE AT A POTENTIAL OF ZERO, MOSTLY FOR SIMPLICITY'S SAKE AND BECAUSE THE POTENTIAL OF ONE THING MEANS JACK SHIT SINCE YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE POTENTIAL YOU WANT BUT IF THE DIFFERENCE IS ZERO THEN NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENS (HYDRAULIC ANALOGY: COMMUNICATING VESSELS)
THERE ARE CASES WHERE, LIKE IN A LIGHTING STRIKE OR DUE TO A HIGH VOLTAGE LINE FALLING, THE LOCAL SPOT OF GROUND WHERE THE LIGHTING IS HITTING MIGHT BE AT A DIFFERENT POTENTIAL THAN IT'S SURROUNDINGS, MEANING YOU CAN GET A NASTY SHOCK AS YOUR FEET ARE ON PIECES OF GROUND WITH DIFFERENT POTENTIAL AND THUS THERE IS A NICE VOLTAGE DIFFERENCE FROM ONE FOOT TO THE OTHER GOING THROUGH YOUR COCK AND BALLS BUT
IT
IS
STILL
A
IMPULSIVE
CURRENT
AND IMPULSIVE CURRENTS ARE (MOSTLY*) USELESS FOR ANYTHING THAT IS NOT WRECKING SHIT, IN THIS CASE YOUR REPRODUCTIVE ABILITIES OR YOUR PC IF YOU ARE REALLY UNLUCKY

*ELECTRIC LIGHTERS, SPARK PLUGS AND FLUORESCENT LAMPS ARE NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS SINCE THEY HAVE A USE BUT THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY MADE CIRCUITS AND THE ELECTRIC IMPULSE IS ONLY USED AS A INITIATOR TO LIGHT THE GAS IN THE LIGHTER OR STOVE OR ENGINE OR TO IONIZE AND MAKE CONDUCTIVE THE GAS IN THE FLUORESCENT LAMP

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>>388118617
>Lightning strikes
>Hits the modem through the coax
>PC and PS4 fried through the ethernet cables

>>388138474
>not using wifi

>>388138680
>using wifi

>>388134547
They're a huge bitch to actually get any money from it though.

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>>388132668
I've got a fancy-ass Panamax for my home theatre system, didn't go for the battery backup though.

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>>388138946
>When wifi is faster and more reliable than ethernet in your dorm

>>388136182
>We don't have giant batteries storing power from lighting strikes.
Batteries are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too slow.
You need enormous capacitors.
Heck, think about this. Lighting is made by, you guessed it, a big capacitor that went above it's voltage rating and sparked between the two plates (ground and cloud).
You can use a dielectric to make it smaller than the 1-2 km of the ground-cloud one, but it will still be fucking enormous, you'd have to make it the size of a small mountain

>>388139073
>dorm

>>388132729
Also want to know this.

Can someone recommend a UPS? Looking on Amazon now and I'm seeing a lot of problems with failures.

>>388139247
>>388132729
what the fuck do you dopers doing that you need such high power ones. post speccys.

https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-CP1500PFCLCD-Sinewave-Compatible-Mini-Tower/dp/B00429N19W/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1503610211&sr=1-3&keywords=apc+pure+sine+wave

>>388126739
its 2017 I have a tablet that uses way less energy that plays asmr youtubes

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>People have their electronics fried just because of thunderstorms
Where the fuck do you live? I'm literally from the third world and I don't have to worry about this shit.

>>388141082
its not that common most people have tons of lightning strikes and they never realize it because their shit was not fried

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>>388122701
>buy weather machine
>can't wait for next sunny day
>hope neighbors notice me turning on the hurricane-force winds, ten-foot-visibility rain and earth-shattering lightning
>but only over my house

>>388141082
florida
lightning capital of the world

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>>388141506
Best state

>>388140239
Given that the Anon mentioned "and a small TV", I'm getting the feeling they think a UPS will let you keep using your computer for an extended time after the power goes out, not just buy you a few minutes to save shit you were working on and shut the computer down.

>>388133497
I cant replace my TV as it is no longer made nor has any TV released since been able to top its quality.

Ill pay $70 to keep the TV as long as I can.

>>388141735
florida is a shithole. i say this living in the most well off part of it

>>388128237
Surge protection used in a house outside the power plant is tricky.
You already have surge protection, what the UPS is doing is adding another potential SP but cheap ones cannot switch fast enough from using their internal battery and the input electricity. So you will basically have a 150 ms~ time were the router is getting double the required voltage, both from the battery and from the house electricity.

>>388118617
Where the fuck do you niggers live that you get regular power surges?

Never used a surge protector on anything, never lost electronics to a surge before.

>>388137776
The United States has a relatively small population considering its total land mass. The bulk of the people in the country live in the biggest 20-30 cities with TONS of rural or otherwise less incorporated areas. Even suburbs are often quite sparsely populated.
This is of course in relation to countries with much better infrastructure like South Korea, Singapore, or Japan where people are living on top of each other.

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>>388142704
You just have to ignore the meth heads, crack heads, white supremacists, black gangsters, mexican/puerto rican gangsters, tourists, aggressive sharks that can swim quite a distance up river, alligators, alligator gars, alligator snapping turtles, crocodiles if you live near the everglades, herpes infected non-native monkeys, wild boars, coyotes, invasive and poisonous lionfish, pythons and boas that were released by shitty pet owners, various species of rattlesnakes and vipers, mosquitoes coral snakes, possibly killer bees, and assorted insects and it's a fine place to live.

>>388137776
Fat floats.

>Americans
lol

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>>388118617
I just have my surge strip plugged into a surge protected outlet.

Why don't you niggers get full home surge protection anyway?

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>>388118617
These guys give you money if your house catches fire.

>>388143706
Well that makes sense if that's the case but the way he wrote seems to imply he plugged the router into the surge protector, then after reading the instructions, he unplugged it from there and plugged it directly into a wall socket.

>>388147171
How much will I get? (Secretly setting fire to my house)

>>388119708
>>388120175
>>388122058
>>388141082
I live in Sweden and I've been taught as a kid to always pull the power plug and network cable and then keeping it at least it at least 0.5 m from contacts to prevent arcs during thunderstorms.

I've seen lightning hit the power pole near our house twice before the power company decided it was cheaper to dig it down since power outrages due to damaged power lines whenever a storm comes which blows down trees and we lost power for like a week which meant millions in dollars in compensation to customers without electricity/repairations.
One of them even melted the tranformer.

>>388122701
FUCK YOU COBRA