Re: Battery backup surge protection for Pio plasma ?'s
- From: Alan Figgatt <afiggatt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:32:25 -0400
jst wrote:
After yesterdays storms rolled through and the lightning flickered the power and shut off the tv a couple of times I quickly unplugged the tv. (Pioneer 4350 ) I also live in an older established neighborhood with lots of trees and squirrels and the squirrels chew on the power lines and fry themselves and that trips the transformer breaker and shuts the power off. I have battery backups on all of my computers in the house and they work flawlessly and I never even know that the power went off.
Sooooooo I stopped in at the local Best Buy and talked to the TV guys and the young man tried to tell me that a battery back up might work on a plasma but it might overload the tv and I would need to plug it in to a MONSTER surge protector priced @ $149 , $199 & $299 to protect the whole system. It sounded like a bunch of crap to me and I told him that the battery back up had a surge protector built in but he said it would not matter and tried to baffle me with tech jargon. When I asked him if this was the same difference as the $59 HDMI cable they wanted to sell me and the $20 one I bought after advice from this group he relented some and said he really wasnt sure.
Would the battery back up be a good idea and could it overload the tv ??
The Monster surge protectors, like their cables, are seriously overpriced. NEVER, I repeat, NEVER expect good advice at Best Buy (BB) recommending you get the more reasonably priced gear. It happens, but that person is probably not long for working at BB.
I would go to the computer section or a computer store and get a good quality ($50 to $75 range maybe) surge protector with coaxial RF connectors on it as well. So long as it does not degrade the analog channels, surge protection on the RF line if you have cable or satellite is a good idea. If you have a roof mounted antenna for the local digital/HD stations, you should definitely get a dedicated surge protector for that line.
If you want battery backup and want to connect all the AV gear - STB, A/V receiver, DVD player, & TV - then you will need to get one sized to handle the load for however many minutes you want to keep the system up. But if you have cable, the cable system is likely to go off-line in the event of a widespread power failure, so it may not make sense to get a battery backup good for more a couple of minutes. Really depends on how reliable your electrical power is. In my case, my local power lines are all underground, so the power is quite reliable and steady, so I don't have battery backup, just a quality surge protector.
Alan F
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