Originally Posted By: chaosmagnet
Originally Posted By: ILBob
To be quite candid, the supposed guarantees of the companies providing these products are of dubious value. How would one ever prove that your device failed because of a surge the surge protector did not prevent? In fact, how would one prove a "surge" killed the device in the first place?


Tripp Lite and APC have both paid out on these guarantees that I know of. I have no data (anecdotal or otherwise) for others. I imagine that a competent electrical engineer can tell whether a power surge fried something.


I am a competent engineer and there is no way I could tell whether a product just gave up the ghost or was killed by a surge, short of some catastrophic failure. The typical failures of electrical and electronic equipment just do not lend themselves to any easy determination of what caused the failure.
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