Decently price surge protector

[SuBXeRo]

Imn sure this has come up before but i am looking for a decently priced surged protector. Ideally it would be a shelf mount system not one thats on the floor. I have looked at panamax and furman and i would lovet to hjave one of those but ^200 is not my ballgame right now. I am looking to spend around 100 for my main system and 50 for my bedroom system. The bedroom one can be a floor one i suppose,

[tube fanatic]

For the money you can't beat the Tripp Lite Isoblok- it plugs directly into your duplex wall outlet. Inexpensive, very effective (I've been using them for years), and ot of the way:

http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtModelID=3974

[SuBXeRo]

how many joules do you think is good?

[tube fanatic]

Well, the Isoblok above is rated for 600j. I live in a very high lightning strike area and have never had one fail, nor has anything plugged into one failed either. You can buy spike suppressors that go up into the thousands of joules; whether you need that much protection is hard to say. But, for a few dollars more you can get a similar plug-in unit which is rated for around 1400j:

http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=74&EID=345&txtModelID=3980

You also need to consider the clamping voltage, or the voltage at which suppression becomes effective. Some units out there clamp at over 300 volts whereas these clamp at 140 volts. You want the clamping voltage to be as low as possible.

[SuBXeRo]

ok i will keep that in mind, i kinda wantes to have a nice panel to connect everything into instead of dealing with strips on the floor but those protectors you use should be on ever outlet in a house IMO lol