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Blergh.
So, yesterday I bought a new surge-protected power bar, because it's 6', only to find it doesn't provide power at all, despite being lighted up! And that's useless, so today I took it back to Canadian Tire, and went to the Source to get another different one.
This one ALSO didn't work (except for two points: the master point, and another Always On point, but the rest are useless), BUT it has lights to indicate when the surge protection is on, and ALSO to indicate when the power source is grounded. And none of the plugs in my apartment are grounded. I'm not sure what this means (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zibblsnrt tells me this is likely illegal) except that I've now bought two power bars and I simply cannot use power bars which are surge-protected. Given that those are the ones which are pretty solidly built to handle my pretty-huge plugs, I'm kinda aggravated by this. I don't really know what else to do because there're so few power bars which are 6' or longer. I may just buy a regular 3' power bar and an extension cord.
Rargh.
This one ALSO didn't work (except for two points: the master point, and another Always On point, but the rest are useless), BUT it has lights to indicate when the surge protection is on, and ALSO to indicate when the power source is grounded. And none of the plugs in my apartment are grounded. I'm not sure what this means (
zibblsnrt tells me this is likely illegal) except that I've now bought two power bars and I simply cannot use power bars which are surge-protected. Given that those are the ones which are pretty solidly built to handle my pretty-huge plugs, I'm kinda aggravated by this. I don't really know what else to do because there're so few power bars which are 6' or longer. I may just buy a regular 3' power bar and an extension cord.Rargh.