Comments on: Surge protectors break 360s?

By: Desk Outlets

Desk Outlets — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:08:53 +0000

It's really important on those gaming console to have a good amount of power and I can say that surge protectors can still be used but not to overload it so that the power distribution will have a focus. Make sure that the surge protectors will be used in a good way and there will be no problem then for those equipments. Equal power distribution is not good in all times because there are really equipments like those gaming console for example which must have the good amount of power distribution.

By: brent Kailbourn

brent Kailbourn — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:41:18 +0000

I blew out my entire entertainment system a few years back when lightning hit the antennae up on the roof of my trailer. Even fried my ‘Astro Invaders’ game I had in my intellivision that I was playing at the time.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:50:40 +0000

Seems to me like the KnowledgeBase article was a trouble shooting thing; more for consumers that have PEBKAC issues than us l33t folks.
I call “shenanigans” on the MS rep that claims that a power strip is going to make power fluctuations WORSE. What does he plug his gear into, a portable nuclear pile in his backyard?
More “blame the customer” from Microsoft- shocking!
A.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:50:00 +0000

Exactly. The electrical system in your home is going to fluctuate. Power supplies are designed to tolerate that within reason. A quality UPS or surge protector is going to keep that to a minimum, not make it worse. This has to be inaccurate from one side or the other.

By: Paul Munn

Paul Munn — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:01:30 +0000

You’ll get voltage dips when things power on on the same circuit. Things like, oh I don’t know, the TV set you absolutely have to have to play a console?

How many people have enough wall plugs behind their entertainment center to plug everything in? Nobody I know, that’s for sure.