Tripp LiteISOBAR4ULTRA Isobar 4-Outlet Heavy Duty Power Strip Surge Protector, 3330 Joules, 6ft Cord, Right-Angle Plug, Metal Power Strip, Industrial Garage Work Shop Bench, Mountable Power Strip

This is the best surge protector there is. Get this one! You can research it if you like, but this is where the internet will point you. And you'll likely think it pricey, but if you have any sensitive musical or computer equipment, this protection is the best out there and it's actually cheaper than some other professional grade surge protectors. The ISOBAR is built of solid metal, I mean solid, so the box itself will last forever. This is a professional grade surge strip.Now there are some plastic trip-lite protectors meant for your TV stuff. They're cheaper and work fine, at least I've never had any problem. But I definitely want the ISOBAR for all my musical plugging in. I bought my first ISOBAR over 20 years ago, and it still works like a charm. I've bought 5 more since. I have a project recording studio that I use these in for pretty much everything I plug in there, and other than making the move to installing an overall surge protector at the studio's breaker box, in which if I did, I'd pop some big bucks for, these are all I will ever use.Now, as great as these are at protecting your equipment against the all too frequent and city common city power voltage surges, particularly in areas with hydroelectric power, all surge protectors have their limitations. While they protect against surges, most surge protectors don't deal with sudden drops of voltage. And I've been told by my amp guy, it's the drops that you should worry the most about. The ISOBAR is designed to recognize a sudden voltage drop and let the power latch down a bit slower to protect the equipment. Now there are some power conditioners out there, quite a bit more expensive to be sure, that are actually designed to deal specifically with sudden drops in voltage. Of course the main culprit here is city power going out altogether while you have your equipment running. And the best protection for that is a battery backup that will keep all your equipment running at a steady voltage level even without power. This is your best protection by all means. But the grade of battery backup you will need in a music project studio is going to cost you a big old wad of cash. And, you are going to have to run some power strips out of it anyway, so they might as well be ISOBARS.And one last disclaimer. Despite everything you do. There's one equipment killing culprit you just can't do anything about. And this one has gotten a few of my machines. Static electricity! In particular, the static caused by nearby lightning strikes. It travels through the air, so there's just no way to block it. But you can try to keep the studio as centrally located in your dwelling as possible and that will really help.One way or the other, you want some surge protection at the power source, and this is the surge protection strip you want.

A high-quality, robust product with legendary surge protection, 3,330 joules, 6 NEMA 5-15R outlets, 90-degree plug, includes a basic electrical connection check, and a LED that indicates when it needs to be replaced. Highly recommended.

I've been in the IT/Electronics business for over 30 years. During this time, I've tried all of the "high end" surge protectors on the market. For my expensive and sensitive electronics, I exclusively buy Tripp Lite ISOBAR Ultra Surge Protectors.In layman's terms: Tripp Lite ISOBAR Ultra Isobar Surge Protectors filter out more the junk electrical noise, they protect against surges for a longer time, when they've really been zapped they shut off letting you know they're no longer working, they protect multiple devices plugged into the surge from hurting each other, and they do all of this more quickly and effectively than any other surge protector I've ever researched.My only complaint about the Tripp Lite ISOBAR6Ultra Isobar Surge Protector Power Strips is that they're ugly, or at least they look very industrial, and they're expensive. However, for my 200 gallon salt water aquarium, multiple thousand dollar model train layout, and my gaming PC with an Nvidia 4090, nothing else will do!Note that the less expensive Triplite surge protectors also do a good job with surges but they lack the filtering and device isolation. I use them for everything else in my house.

Really nice quality item, would highly recommend for anyone looking for a premium surge protector. I am using it on my sim racing rig and it is great.

I did a bunch of research before coming up with a strategy for our house; it included a whole house surge protector (Siemens), decent quality type-3 surge protectors at the outlets for most of our electronics, and this very high quality type-3 protector for my computer workstation, which I don't want to take any risks with.Choosing these products is hard, because the marketing departments assume you're stupid. They wow you with information that's relatively unimportant (Joule ratings) and completely worthless (EMI filtering). Trust me, audiophiles, if an EMI filter makes a real difference to your sound quality, you have a defective power supply.They'll also try to wow you with their equipment protection warranties. Isobar is not innocent here. Read the fine print and you'll see why no one in the history of the known universe has ever gotten a dime from one of these claims.To find what actually matters you often have to dig deep on the manufacturer's site. This Isobar has it: 1) protection on all 3 phases; 2) low let-through voltage (officially 330v, which is lowest the UL standard allows in the specs, but in real life it's actually lower on this unit); 3) very high surge amperage rating (not really needed if you have a whole-house protector, but nice to have); 4) filtration for ringing transients.If you can find all this, you'll have very good protection. I've found some others that come close, and for less money (including some by APC which I've bought) but none as good as this series by Isobar. I think worth it for things that you can't afford to get zapped.Added: there are some supposedly high-end surge protectors that use a serial protection circuit, rather than the parallel metal oxide varistor circuits used by Isobar and most others. They claim (correctly) that their circuits are not sacrificial like MOVs (which deteriorate a little with every surge and so don't last forever). But these serial circuits have a fatal flaw: they only protect against surges on a single phase (live to neutral). Surges coming over other phases, including anything on the ground wire, will pass right through. These are not high-end options; they gimmicks marketed to rubes. If you look at the surge protectors use in places like hospitals and giant data centers, you'll see MOVs, not serial nonsense.