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Prime Members: Anker 12-Outlet Surge Protector Power Strip w/ 5' Cord (Black, 2100J) for
$21.98.
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Features:- 12 AC outlets, 1 USB-C port, and 2 USB-A ports
- Fast Charge Your iPhone: Use the 20W USB-C port to give your iPhone 13 a high-speed charge from 0-53% in just 30 minutes.
- 8-Point Safety System: Combines surge protection, fire resistance, overload protection, temperature control, and more to protect you and your devices
No Longer Available:- AnkerDirect via Amazon has Anker 12-Outlet Surge Protector Power Strip w/ 5' Cord (Black, 2100J) for $19.99. Shipping is free with Prime or orders $35+.
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If you actually want a good surge protector get one that has 330V clamp. But they usually cost twice as much as this anker.
https://www.amazon.com/Protector-...P4X9EWVXLJ
Walmart also sells for $21.50 (clip $7.50 coupon) for those with Walmart Plus.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Surge-...om=/search
"The 12-outlet Anker 351 Power Strip performed dreadfully in our testing, offering no surge protection whatsoever."
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...pro
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If you actually want a good surge protector get one that has 330V clamp. But they usually cost twice as much as this anker.
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I use Anker's own USB-C cable and tried to use other brand USB-C cables as well with the same result.
Finally I bought a USB-C wall charger https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0835KV...tails
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If you actually want a good surge protector get one that has 330V clamp. But they usually cost twice as much as this anker.
"The 12-outlet Anker 351 Power Strip performed dreadfully in our testing, offering no surge protection whatsoever."
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...pro
If you actually want a good surge protector get one that has 330V clamp. But they usually cost twice as much as this anker.
https://a.co/d/dra1WPh
https://a.co/d/4zZTDTi
or https://a.co/d/hU3huB8
I need one with at least 12 outlets. Don't know much about quality of these, but I have heard of Anker and Belkin.
Open to other options as well.
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"Any protector that "is a one-shot deal" is a near zero protector to promote sales with obscene profit margins. No adjacent protector claims to protect from typically destructive surges.
One defines a customer with a failed protector; adjacent appliance worked fine. His conclusion is based only in observation and speculation. Include numbers. That undersized protector was destroyed by a transient too tiny to overwhelm superior protection inside appliances. Appliances protected themselves from a surge that easily destroyed that near zero protector.
A $3 power strip with ten cent protector parts costs how much? $20? $60? They could repeatedly replace that near zero protector and still have profits.
They got observation and speculation to make conclusions about a near zero protector. Conclusions only using observation are also called junk science reasoning. Anyone can read specification numbers. How does its near zero (hundreds or thousand joules) absorb a surge that is hundreds of thousands of joules? It doesn't have to. It need only be small enough to fail on a surge too tiny to destroy attached appliances. That promotes more sales.
We traced destructive surges. In one case, a network of power off computers were connected to power strip protectors. Protectors simply bypassed superior protection inside each computer. Surge was connect directly into a motherboard - bypassing its PSU.
A surge is electricity. If a surge is incoming but has no outgoing path, then no surge current and damage exists. In this case, a required outgoing path was via the network. We traced that surge by literally replacing each damaged semiconductor to restore all computers. How many learn by actually tracing damage and restoring each damaged part?
Incoming on AC mains. Connected direct to each motherboard by an adjacent protector. Outgoing via network connections. Into one computer that was connected to phone lines. Out to earth ground destructively via that modem. Why? Because surges do damage by locating earth ground destructively via appliances. And because phone lines already have effective protection installed for free.
An outgoing path suffers damage. Only speculation (junk science reasoning) assumes that was an incoming path. Valid conclusions are tempered by how surge currents flow and perspective (ie numbers).
One had damaged appliances. That means a surge was all but invited inside to hunt for earth ground destructively via appliances. Surge is incoming to everything (with or without plug-in protectors). Only damaged items made a better outgoing connection to earth. Effective protection means no surge inside. Then superior protection inside every appliance is not overwhelmed.
Informed homeowners spend about $1 per protected appliance for a properly earthed 'whole house' solution. Numbers exist in any honest recommendation.
Lightning is typically 20,000 amps. So a minimal 'whole house' protector is 50,000 amps. Because protector must not fail on any surge - even a direct lightning strike. No protector does protection. Effective protector connects hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly to what actually does all protection; to what absorbs hundreds of thousands of joules. Single point earth ground.
Effective protector makes a low impedance (ie less than 10 foot) connection to earth ground. Near zero protectors do not. Protectors adjacent to appliances obviously has no earth ground connection (receptacle safety ground obviously is not an earth ground). Best protection per appliance even from direct lightning strikes is tens or 100 times less money.
Remember how electricity works. If a surge is incoming to that protector, then at the same time, a surge current is also outgoing into an adjacent appliance. Much later, something somewhere in that path fails. Plug-in protectors are made as tiny as possible to promote sales and increase profits.
Incoming surge to an effective protector is, instead, is outgoing to earth ground (not to any appliance). Then hundreds of thousands of joules are absorbed harmlessly outside. Then all appliances inside (refrigerator, clocks, bathroom GFCI, dishwasher, recharging phones, TVs, smoke detectors, dimmer switches, plug-in protectors) all are protected even from direct lightning strikes. One-shot protectors do not even claim to protect from that destructive surge.
How does a 2 cm part (inside a plug-in protector) block what three miles of sky could not? How does its hundreds of joules absorb a surge that is hundreds of thousands of joules? Another rare problem is fire created by near zero protectors. More reasons why a plug-in protector must be protected by one properly earthed 'whole house' solution. Demonstrated is how plug-in protectors may even make appliance damage easier. For all protectors - a protector is only as effective as its earth ground."
=0.75rem•9y ago [reddit.com]=0.75rem•=0.75remEdited 9y ago=0.75rem• Any protector that "is a one-shot deal" is a near zero protector to promote sales with obscene profit margins. No adjacent protector claims to protect from typically destructive surges.One defines a customer with a failed protector; adjacent appliance worked fine. His conclusion is based only in observation and speculation. Include numbers. That undersized protector was destroyed by a transient too tiny to overwhelm superior protection inside appliances. Appliances protected themselves from a surge that easily destroyed that near zero protector.A $3 power strip with ten cent protector parts costs how much? $20? $60? They could repeatedly replace that near zero protector and still have profits.They got observation and speculation to make conclusions about a near zero protector. Conclusions only using observation are also called junk science reasoning. Anyone can read specification numbers. How does its near zero (hundreds or thousand joules) absorb a surge that is hundreds of thousands of joules? It doesn't have to. It need only be small enough to fail on a surge too tiny to destroy attached appliances. That promotes more sales.We traced destructive surges. In one case, a network of power off computers were connected to power strip protectors. Protectors simply bypassed superior protection inside each computer. Surge was connect directly into a motherboard - bypassing its PSU.A surge is electricity. If a surge is incoming but has no outgoing path, then no surge current and damage exists. In this case, a required outgoing path was via the network. We traced that surge by literally replacing each damaged semiconductor to restore all computers. How many learn by actually tracing damage and restoring each damaged part?Incoming on AC mains. Connected direct to each motherboard by an adjacent protector. Outgoing via network connections. Into one computer that was connected to phone lines. Out to earth ground destructively via that modem. Why? Because surges do damage by locating earth ground destructively via appliances. And because phone lines already have effective protection installed for free.An outgoing path suffers damage. Only speculation (junk science reasoning) assumes that was an incoming path. Valid conclusions are tempered by how surge currents flow and perspective (ie numbers).One had damaged appliances. That means a surge was all but invited inside to hunt for earth ground destructively via appliances. Surge is incoming to everything (with or without plug-in protectors). Only damaged items made a better outgoing connection to earth. Effective protection means no surge inside. Then superior protection inside every appliance is not overwhelmed.Informed homeowners spend about $1 per protected appliance for a properly earthed 'whole house' solution. Numbers exist in any honest recommendation.Lightning is typically 20,000 amps. So a minimal 'whole house' protector is 50,000 amps. Because protector must not fail on any surge - even a direct lightning strike. No protector does protection. Effective protector connects hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly to what actually does all protection; to what absorbs hundreds of thousands of joules. Single point earth ground.Effective protector makes a low impedance (ie less than 10 foot) connection to earth ground. Near zero protectors do not. Protectors adjacent to appliances obviously has no earth ground connection (receptacle safety ground obviously is not an earth ground). Best protection per appliance even from direct lightning strikes is tens or 100 times less money.Remember how electricity works. If a surge is incoming to that protector, then at the same time, a surge current is also outgoing into an adjacent appliance. Much later, something somewhere in that path fails. Plug-in protectors are made as tiny as possible to promote sales and increase profits.Incoming surge to an effective protector is, instead, is outgoing to earth ground (not to any appliance). Then hundreds of thousands of joules are absorbed harmlessly outside. Then all appliances inside (refrigerator, clocks, bathroom GFCI, dishwasher, recharging phones, TVs, smoke detectors, dimmer switches, plug-in protectors) all are protected even from direct lightning strikes. One-shot protectors do not even claim to protect from that destructive surge.How does a 2 cm part (inside a plug-in protector) block what three miles of sky could not? How does its hundreds of joules absorb a surge that is hundreds of thousands of joules? Another rare problem is fire created by near zero protectors. More reasons why a plug-in protector must be protected by one properly earthed 'whole house' solution. Demonstrated is how plug-in protectors may even make appliance damage easier. For all protectors - a protector is only as effective as its earth ground.
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Some chinese guy came to the US, went to school, got a job (in the US).
Decided he could make a fortune by moving home and paying other chinese people $0.10/hour to make products (which may have been above average/good), and selling those products in the US at huge markups (over costs).
Established a decent reputation, and then started to cut "costs" while increasing profits.
My enthusiasm for Anker products has waned substantially with each additional product. "Average", or even "good", does not mean "premium", nor does it justify premium prices.
YMMV..
And no, I have no problem with capitalism, or ambition.....
Going to return now!
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