My story is more one of why everybody should own one. One day I noticed that peripherals on my computer weren't working, and I couldn't figure out why not since the computer itself was working fine.
I checked the connections, everything was plugged in, so I'm scratching my head thinking maybe they are dead, which was odd because it was 4 different things. So I changed the plugs around on my battery back up system, and all of a sudden they work. Turns out during the night the non battery run plugs got fried out because of a surge. Ever since then, I keep a surge protector in pretty much any plug that has something over 10$ plugged in.
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