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Location: Calgary,Alberta | Hello
Does anybody on this forum use surge protection on there gear, amps,mixers,pedals etc. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I use Furman surge protector / power conditioners with everything. They make a nice 6 space floor unit which is similar to a regular power strip. |
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Location: Calgary,Alberta | Thanks John B for the quik reply....sounds like the way to go. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I use a plain surge protector. Can't even remember the brand, but I got it at costco. It's more than enough for my combo and two stomp boxes. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Maybe g8r is OK with it, but I personally think discussion of his birth control is a little off limits. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Are you implying that Country Artist is too old to need protection? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Maybe g8r is OK with it, but I personally think discussion of his birth control is a little off limits. Funny, that's the first thing I thought also
(of course, I was too polite to say it) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Me too
I'm not too polite either, just too late.......... |
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Location: Utica, NY | Only as an unintentional part of the multi-outlet power strip that powers my side of things. We have taken the power out in a few places and it's almost always at the breaker box and not the strip. I am certain they are a great idea but we don't us them. Interestingly, the one time it did trip I didn't even think to check it. I forgot it was even in the power chain. After blaming the city building power, pouring over their breaker box and calling in two more city employees to diagnose the problem (on a Saturday night at a union mandated 4 hr minimum each person)that could find nothing wrong with their equipment it dawned on me that I should check the strip. Yup, you know what happens next. Click....Uh, never mind guys. We're all set now.
Pretty sure that won't happen a second time.
But, to the best of my knowledge, in over 25 years of playing in the some most questionably powered dives, houses, barns and on generators of assorted sizes I have not yet had an issue that a power strip would have solved. YMMV. |
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Location: Utah | Might a GFCI be more useful than a surge protector? |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by sard:
Hello
Does anybody on this forum use surge protection on there gear, amps,mixers,pedals etc. Only because power strips offer more outlets than an extension cord... of course, always save one to plug in the second strip... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | and the third............... |
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