MichaelShaffer Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 The power went out yesterday and now my 21" Sony G520 monitor is making loud sizzling noises. Anybody know of a good surge protector? I know it's kind of late but I want to protect my receiver now before that gets screwed up too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easylistener Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 How much money do you want to spend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Adequate protection requires that all sources of surges into a building be controlled: power, phone, cable TV, etc. That said, as far as plug-in surge protectors go, I think the TrippLite Isobar Ultra is pretty good. They are used by a lot of big companies to give some protection to desktop systems. I have two in my A/V cabinet. I also have a whole house surge protector at the service entrance. Phone and internet is FTTH (fibre to the home) so surges from external sources are not a problem. Downside is that they are not exactly cheap unless you can find them used on eBay or elsewhere. A lot of them were surplused as companies downsized recently or sold at bankruptcy auctions. FWIW a sizzling sound means you have a problem in the high voltage circuitry of your monitor. Usually means either the flyback transformer or the high voltage driver board on the end of the CRT neck is about to die. Either can be replaced. The problem is finding replacements and cost. Usually better to dump the old monitor and buy a new one. My HP computer monitor developed similar symptoms. Wound up buying a refurbished dell monitor for $119. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Cornell Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 My sister had a power surge, and it went right thru the protectors, everything in here house was fried, i havent believed in them since! Regards Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelShaffer Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 I just called Sony and it's still under warranty so all I have to do is pay shipping and wait a month for it to be fixed. Not that bad I guess I learned my lesson to use a good surge protector.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksdad Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 a good and much cheaper way could be for you to install gfci circuit breakers, for 30-40 apice it would protect everything down stream, it is an osha standard on construction sites, and it really does not take much to set 1 of these off, but than everything is protected, equipment and people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minn_male42 Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 "a good and much cheaper way could be for you to install gfci circuit breakers, for 30-40 apice it would protect everything down stream, it is an osha standard on construction sites, and it really does not take much to set 1 of these off, but than everything is protected, equipment and people" actually, gfci circuit breakers will do nothing to stop a surge....they will only trip if there is a fault in your "ground circuit"....an external surge will go right through them to your equipment.... a good inexpensive surge protector is the tripp lite isobar series.... they start about $40 and go up from there... www.tripplite.com for the best protection available get a series mode protector.... these are made by surge-x, brickwall, and zerosurge.... all the units from these companies provide unlimited joule ratings!!!!...protection up to 3000 amps at 6000 volts... www.surgex.com www.brickwall.com www.zerosurge.com do a search on the forum for surge protectors and power conditioners and you will find a great deal of information... good luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 FWIW, I've got a 3 year old APC 400 Back-UPS for my computer, and a Monster Power HTS 5000 line conditioner for my stereo...no problems yet, knock on wood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Definitely use a conditioner on your audio system (Monster Powerbars start at $80) and a UPS on your computer (lots of inexpensive options available - bigger bucks gives longer shutdown times and sometimes includes line conditioning as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelShaffer Posted August 25, 2003 Author Share Posted August 25, 2003 My brother just gave me his TripLite BC-1250 LAN APC. The battery needs to be replaced but the surge protector still works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unreal Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Bestbuy just got acoustic research power conditioning surge protectors. Better specs on them than the monsters, and $29 for a 2100 joule, 8 outlet, with coax in/out. I got one last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodger Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Hello: To add I had an elctrician make a double gang box with four (4) switched outlets. I can power up one at a time and not worry about on off switch. I plug that into an Isobar then I have a singular surge protector with emi/rfi filtering from Radio Shack at the outlet. So I double up a bit and switch the equipment. Win dodger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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