[ohGrFreak]

I of all people should have learned by now. Here's my situation, I live in a basement with my fiancee (we're saving to buy a house of our own) and we have a main power outlet hanging from the ceiling, we then have a heavy duty outside extension cable with 3 prongs from that outlet going to our wall-o-entertainment (computer, gadgets, tv, theater, amp, etc) and a surge protector plugged into that, the comp and it's accesories are plugged into the main surge protector, which cost like 80 bucks new. then on top of that, we have a secondary surge protecter, cheaper and smaller but the kicker is that we just bought a new space heater and had nowhere to plug it into, so we stuck it in the second surge protector, the lights dimmed just a little when it kicks on, thats normal, but finally, i had it set for two hours and poof, no power, i thought it was the breaker so i check it and flip every switch and nothing, then my fiancee reminds me that there is a breaker on the main surge protector, phew!!!

anyways, moral of the story, when you buy a surge protector, buy quality and do not overload it by stringing another power strip onto it.

[beedubaya]

.....interesting. I have never done that. I have a very good quality surge supressor, and I am pondering getting a nice UPS. I did have a computer get fried by lightning, so I get a little scared when lightning comes.

[MasterJason]

I run of a Lightning protector into my ups then into my pc. once the ups blew and they just replaced it

[ohGrFreak]

i am glad i spent the money i did on the main protector, i wish i could afford a UPS, but there's no way until we get back on our feet financialy. I do plan on buying two super good surge protectors and running them seperately from different outlets, one for my comp, the other for my theater and heater.

[Regulus]

That will be good.
I have one of those 1980s or 1990s surge protector that your monitor sits on. I like it because then I don't have to go reaching everywhere to turn stuff on/off, or bend over and crawl under my desk to unplug it or somethinig like that.

[FoxyLoxy]

so how many things did you have plugged in total? the heater was a big addition its cold here so I know. And how many total surge protectors? I've always been curious to know how many you could do w/o burning your house down.

[ohGrFreak]

here's a list:

surge protector one:

computer w 420 PSU
LCD monitor
modem and router
speakers with subwoofer
printer
surge protecter number 2

surge protector number 2:

yamaha amp/reciver
Denon DVD-555 dvd/cd player
TV
extension cord powering a lamp
space heater
archos media player

it goes like this. heavy duty extension cord to first surge protector to second protector to another extension cord. i've been running this for a good month with no problems until the space heater.

[FoxyLoxy]

good god man, that is impressive, I dont know how well i'd sleep (even though you're now gonna sleep warmer).

[ohGrFreak]

there is very good power running this house, i just overshot it by one item, LOL. most the time, the comp, LCD, amp, dvd player, and the tv are going, but ocassionally the heater is on when the central heater stops.