Posted September 20, 200816 yr Well, when my city lost power from Ike's winds, our generator somehow malfunctioned and damaged a lot of my equipment that was on surge protectors...We are in the process of getting hard-wired protection, regulators and new protectors so that should take care of all that.Anyway, it damaged a PSU, my razor, 1 surge protector, my 51" rear projection tv and some plugs.Well, after a week of researching and researching, i'm slowly getting things back out of my pocket and in about 25 minutes, hopefully i'll post on here a deal of a lifetime but if i dont win this item i'm bidding on, then i don't care.I had planned on upgrading one of my pcs before this happened... I'm still expecting too especially now!I just won me a Quad 2.5ghz processor(Intel Q9300) on ebay for $198 ShiPPeD!Newegg is going to be shipping me an Asus board that supports ATI Crossfire with 4 GB of Corsair DDR2 1066 memory for only $290 for both the board and memory.I'll be postin back soon on this "item" i'm trying to win for an ungodly low price. Let's see what happens.
September 20, 200816 yr Author ehh.. i missed it but some other people just got a deal of a lifetime.60" Pioneer Plasma TVs for $1559.00 shipped Brand New!I was only $30 behind.. oh well.
September 21, 200816 yr We are in the process of getting hard-wired protection, regulators and new protectors so that should take care of all that.Gas-tube arc protection?The problem is, a lot of hard-wired protection solutions that last are pretty slow to react to surges. The ones that act fast don't last long and require frequent replacement. And against a power company that doesn't care about its customers or a direct lightning strike, I don't know of anything that's 100% effective But anything's better than nothing...and I've had some friends that have used stuff like that on their phone/data lines to good effect.ehh.. i missed it but some other people just got a deal of a lifetime.Think about it this way..in five years, you couldn't pay people to move that TV
September 21, 200816 yr Author i still wish i won it... it weighed 101 lbs, not that heavy at all for that size.
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