Are mains surge protectors needed in the UK?

w_tom wrote:

David Maynard worried about daily transients created by
utility line switching.

I said no such thing.

Transient that must also have been
destroying HIS LED clock.

A flat out lie that YOU invented.

After years of LED clock failure
(that did not happen) et al, then David Maynard said we need
plug-in protectors.

Another lie.

Oh? Those clocks were not failing daily
or weekly due to line switching? Well then what protected
even those LED clocks? Maybe those destructive line switching
transients just don't exist? Duhhhh.....

Besides being an all around pompous ass, you are a bald face liar.

In the meantime, the point of that post and LED clock
example was that destructive transient occur typically once
every eight years.

And I've not have one of your "whole house protectors" for way longer tha=
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8 years with no "LED clock" damage. So, by your own idiotic criteria, you=
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device is 'unnecessary' as well.

Does one need protection? First, what is
the frequency of destructive transients in your neighborhood?=20
We know even from LED clocks that destructive surges are rare
events.

That argument depends on the entirely fallacious presumption that an "LED=
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clock" is 100% representative of every electronic device.

Do we put a plug-in protector on all clocks at =A310 or
=A330 per clock? Yes according to those here who work for the
plug-in protector industry.

Two more lies.

Spend big bucks to protect an
appliance that already has effective adjacent protection?

I'm tempted to call this another lie but it could be that your just plain=
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stupid, or both.

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Bagpuss wrote:
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As we all know about the perpetual motion engine (buttered toast
strapped to the back of a dropped cat) perhaps we could generate a
stasis device by pluging 4 of w_toms exploding LED clocks in to a
belkin surge protector. It should result in a set of LED clocks
permenantly in the state of breakdown due to the expected surge,=20
but the surge never quite arriving at the clocks. The result, I=20
theorise, is a destructive spark suspended in time somewhere=20
inside the belkin unit or one of 4 clocks resulting in a set
of 4 clocks that will never breakdown.