{"id":573,"date":"2011-10-31T12:28:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2011-10-31T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:28:05","slug":"surge-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/surge-protection","title":{"rendered":"Surge Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people don&#8217;t even think about surge protection when they buy a PC, but when you go out and spend a lot of money on a machine it is wise to think about this sort of protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are some of the reasons why :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surges\/Spikes are bursts of electricity up to 3,000 volts caused by electrical load switching and the on\/off action of equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Noise can enter power lines from nearby electrical equipment, such as vending machines and heavy industrial equipment.<\/li>\n<li>A single brief surge\/spike of electricity could render your machine useless and\/or destroy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpwithpcs.com\/courses\/power-supply-basics-inc-pinouts.htm\">Power Supply Unit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Electrical noise can corrupt data.<\/li>\n<li>The cost of a surge protection unit is a lot cheaper than the repair bill for a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpwithpcs.com\/courses\/power-supply-basics-inc-pinouts.htm\">Power Supply Unit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Surges are common in power cuts (which we all have from time to time) when power is restored.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Surge protection units come in various shapes and sizes, the most common is similar to an extension lead, some have built-in protection for data lines too. Units can be bought in reputable electrical retailers or online &#8211; amazon.co.uk have an extensive range to suit most requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people don&#8217;t even think about surge protection when they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[69,76,150,179,265,287,354],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-how-to","tag-computer","tag-cost","tag-hardware-tag","tag-it","tag-pc","tag-protection","tag-surge-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk\/ictblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}