Tower Power Protection Stand €19.99 ALDI

North Cork

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/special_buys3_13502.htm


On Sale Thursday 22nd July 2010
Tower Power Protection Stand



Designed to protect PC and IT equipment. Added surge protection for telecom, broadband and LAN/ADSL.

• 10 socket
• 2 metre cable
• 13 amp
• Surge indicator with on/off switch
• Also includes 2 x 2 metre fly leads (phone connection to RJ11 fly lead and RJ45 to RJ45 fly lead)
• Adjustable clips for cable management
• Cable tidy base

In the unlikely event that a surge passes through this protection device within 3 years of purchase and damage occurs to the connected equipment, Masterplug will pay up to €3,500 to repair or replace the equipment. Masterplug stands by the quality of its performance series products.

djdunny

Nice one OP, was going to spend twice that on one in argos this weekend, now i can pick up 2

cheer
Dunny

Del2005

Sweet. Was only trying to figure out something for all the transformer plugs I have. That will do the job. Thanks

sdanseo

Same sort of thing is about €50 normally, decent bargain this.

Sir Oxman

Great bargain - i paid 43e for a 12gang one a few months ago in B&Q

Mizu_Ger

It looks like it has USB sockets on the tower, which would be very handy.

screw2loose

i picked up one of these the last time they were selling them. Great bit of kit, those ports on the fron are usb and ethernet as far as i can remember.

I would recommend this to anyone still just using an extension lead!:D

acrmorris

Reckon I'd better camp outside Aldi tomorrow night - these seem a bargain and sound like they'll be going pretty quick!

djdunny

guys does anyone know if the button on the top is a master power switch or does it just turn on the surge protection. i cant really tell by the description. it says "Surge indicator with on/off switch"

cheers
dunny

jpb1974

Worth getting but also a point worth noting -

Telephone lines carry voltage.

Last Thursday night during the heavy thunder and lightning a telephone and broadband modem were fried at my parents house. The phone completely died, the modem still powered on but refused to acknowledge the DSL signal. No other electrical items were affected. Both had to be replaced. We suspect that it was the telephone line that was responsible.

Del2005

jpb1974 wrote: »

Worth getting but also a point worth noting -

Telephone lines carry voltage.

All electrical cables carry voltage:D, your voice/data is transmitted as electrical signals.

Last Thursday night during the heavy thunder and lightning a telephone and broadband modem were fried at my parents house. The phone completely died, the modem still powered on but refused to acknowledge the DSL signal. No other electrical items were affected. Both had to be replaced. We suspect that it was the telephone line that was responsible.

That's the reason why you shouldn't use a wired phone when there are thunder storms local. Can get a nice shock.

Plugging the phone line into this will reduce the risk of this happening.

Clareman

Bit off topic here so apologies in advance.

Years ago, back in the dial up days, Ennis was awarded the title of Information Age Town (I could go off on a major rant on this, but I won't now ), 1 of the incentives was that everyone was given the opportunity to buy a cheap desktop (Dell OptiPlex). 1 night there was a thunder storm, half the towns modems were fried, not enough power to hurt someone who was on the phone, but it did damage the internal circuits of the modems.

I also remember when I was younger, phones had a small plug on them (round pins), if there was a thunder storm you had to plug out the phone, 1 time my mother didn't and there was scorch marks on the top of the fridge (where the phone was left)

screw2loose

djdunny wrote: »

guys does anyone know if the button on the top is a master power switch or does it just turn on the surge protection. i cant really tell by the description. it says "Surge indicator with on/off switch"

cheers
dunny

The Switch at the top of the unit powers all the plugs off, handy as i have all my equiptment hooked up to it, flip the switch at night and it all turns off. No more standby lights.:D

Thoushaltnot

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

It looks like it has USB sockets on the tower, which would be very handy.

Nope, what you get are 2 english telephone sockets (but just 1 irish->english lead), 2 RJ45 (network) sockets and then 2 modem/dsl sockets (our RJ11s)

I've used the english lead to connect the tower to my wall socket and the tower does the line splitting itself so the phone has gone into one of the RJ11s and the modem into the other.

Mizu_Ger

Thoushaltnot wrote: »

Nope, what you get are 2 english telephone sockets (but just 1 irish->english lead), 2 RJ45 (network) sockets and then 2 modem/dsl sockets (our RJ11s)

I've used the english lead to connect the tower to my wall socket and the tower does the line splitting itself so the phone has gone into one of the RJ11s and the modem into the other.

Thanks. I went to the local ALDI at lunchtime and they didn't have any!

Double C

Just bought one there in Mullingar and there were still a good 5-6 left.

skelliser

4/5 left in westside galway

Dermo

There were none in the rathmines store

viking

Bought the last one in Mullingar

chavezychavez

Same as, got the last one in Listowel as well