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Originally Posted by notoriousmatty

Im sorry but those are worthless. Any power strip will do. I have over 30k in equipment and none of those power hoax equipment. Go on avs forum and watch people tear these apart

Power strips don't work for beans on computing equipment (including game consoles). I used to work in the power protection industry, at a company that manufactures a wide variety of surge protection products. I've seen the real test results first-hand, trust me on this.

Most power strips have just a 10kA-20kA metal oxide varistor. It's fine if your only problem is lightning strikes on power lines damaging your refrigerator. What those things don't do is reduce the temporary voltage low enough to prevent damage to your electronic equipment. Most of them will clamp the voltage down to maybe 500v, which is still plenty high enough to fry your PS3/computer/whatever.

More importantly, in the case of a PS3, a lot of games access the hard drive and Bad Things will happen if you get a temporary loss of power during a save operation. At the least you lose some game data - sometimes more.

Now, if you happen to live in an area with very clean, very consistent power (no lightning, reliable electrical service without any brownouts), then sure, go with a strip (but don't overload it). Sadly, there are very, very, very few places anywhere in the world that meet this condition.

A UPS unit will avoid both of these problems handily, letting you finish up and save your progress before turning off your PS3 or computer when the power goes out.

P.S. While I have great respect for the folks at AVS Forum regarding A/V hardware, their collective knowledge about power protection leaves much to be desired.