Protecting your expensive computer hardware with surge protection We spend as little as a few dollars for some technology however with some premium items costing many thousands of your hard earned cash it is sometimes surprising that we take little effort to protect that investment. In the last 20 to 30 years the Information Age has taken the world by storm, revolutionising the way we live our lives and interact with virtually everything in our environment. Australians over this period have shown to be amongst the fastest to adapt to the new technologies. We currently lead the world in the uptake of smartphones for example, outstripping mobile phone users in Europe and the US. We know from our own experience in the Dubbo region that there is a computer of some sorts in every house you drive by. This of course is largely due to the fact that we are relatively well off as a society and can afford the purchase of these devices. Ok that’s great! We like technology and we buy it because we are able to. Now we have such expensive pieces of, let’s face it, delicate hardware. Many of us do not protect our devices from power surges or switching and lightning strikes but there are solutions and they are relatively inexpensive. In Australia the domestic main power supply is 230V +10%, -6% whilst devices such as computers, televisions, mobile devices and other home entertainment gear are most vulnerable to failure after a power outage because they operate at low voltages. A desktop PC for example …
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