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When Do Surge Protectors Go Bad?

In our previous post “How to Get the Right Protection from a Power Surge”, we have discussed that the main function of a Voltage Surge Protector is to eliminating unnecessary power spikes which destroys our appliances. It also serves as an extension cord which distributes power to your appliances and contains a useful switch which can help you turn on or off your cord extension when appliances were not in use which can give you hassle free life.

Don’t Fix What Isn’t Broken

Are you all familiar to the saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Maybe some of you are not and majority do know this but I am 100% sure that all of you would agree to this right? This can also be applicable to other things like, appliances, laws or almost anything that you can think of but to tell you the truth this is not applicable to power surge protectors. Maybe you’d ask why and how can I know if I have a surge protector that looks okay but in reality is not?

Knowing How Surge Protectors are Functioning or Not

As per the article from Life Hacker website, no one can tell if your surge protector is still protecting you or not. Well, some protectors have an LED light that can tell you if it’s still working or not, dim lights can be deemed as a signal of its deteriorating ability to protect you from sudden surges while bright LED light cannot assure that it is still useful as a surge protector.

As per How-to-Geek contributor Chris Hoffman have said, a Life-Span of a surge protector depends on the amount of joules it has already received. For example, if your surge protector has a limit of 1000 jules only, your surge protector.

So, as a pre-caution, it is highly recommended that changing your voltages surge protectors should be on a regular basis which is done every 2 years.

Here in the Philippines, you can opt to buy voltagesurge protector from Panther

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