The power surge laughed at my surge protector, went straight through it without slowing down, blew up several bits of kit beyond it, and left it intact and unaware that anything had happened.
That's extremely annoying. Name and shame the make/model? I seem to recall mine had some kind of guarantee when I bought it, that anything that got blown up behind it was covered up to some medium-sized sum of money - 500 quid or so. I've no idea how I'd claim at this point though, having thrown all the packaging away as per usual :)
I'm sure. Though you feel you should be able to make some sort of complaint: if it doesn't protect from surges, isn't it false advertising to call it a surge protector? What does it do? Protect surges from something? :)
It's a Micromark 8-way mains adapter with built-in surge protector. (I admittedly didn't buy it primarily for its surge protection feature; I mostly bought it because it was an 8-way mains adapter with an indicator showing its total current load, which struck me as a thoroughly useful thing.)
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That's extremely annoying. Name and shame the make/model? I seem to recall mine had some kind of guarantee when I bought it, that anything that got blown up behind it was covered up to some medium-sized sum of money - 500 quid or so. I've no idea how I'd claim at this point though, having thrown all the packaging away as per usual :)
It's a Micromark 8-way mains adapter with built-in surge protector. (I admittedly didn't buy it primarily for its surge protection feature; I mostly bought it because it was an 8-way mains adapter with an indicator showing its total current load, which struck me as a thoroughly useful thing.)