Sunday 9th of January 2005
Surge protectors..
About two weeks ago or so I got some new remote controlled surge protectors; it comes with four plastic thingies that you plug on the wall and then your appliance on the other side of it. You can then control them from the remote control (juice on or off). I got them at Lidl, and even though they have “3 year warranty” it lists some website that seeems to be under construction.. hum. I also have another one i bought more than a year ago, but it’s a whole mains panel with three of the plugs being remote controlled.
Anyway, currently I use them to turn off my trusty but juice guzzling Klipsch speakers and their appropiate 750 VA transfomer (they are 110-120v) after i’m done, but even then, i forget to do so once in a while.
Enter the OneClick™ the intelligent mains panel, which, as they explain:
OneClick™ the intelligent mains panel automatically controls the power to all of your peripherals from your computer. Switch on your computer and OneClick instantly switches power to your monitor, scanner, printer, games console and speakers. Switch your computer off and OneClick turns them all off again. It’s that simple.
Here’s an animation that shows how it works too. I know there are ethernet enabled power surges, with web pased panels and x10 on them, et al; and while they have more advanced features, they don’t help with “remembering to turn the damn thing off”, so i guess for £28.80 it’s not that bad. Those other surges can cost 600 dollars and upwards too -they are great for off-site hard reboots though.
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