Prime Wire PB802135 6-Outlet Metal Power Workshop Surge Protector with 14-3 SJT 15-Feet Cord

one of the devices which has become extremely common common in recent years is a plug strip and this is because when you hook up your computer at home you need to have a plug for the computer you need that one for the monitor you need to have one for your external drive you need to have one for whatever else you've got going on all of these are subject to the transients so the big innovation is you take and you put something like this inside of here so everything that you plug in to the strip is now going to be protected against transients coming in from your local power supplier coming right down through this line the purpose of the varistors metal oxide varistors and the GE brand of these was the G mob is their ability to clamp voltages to basically sit on a circuit and not do anything at all until the voltage tends to come rise above an acceptable level and then it clamps the voltage