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How many of you have experienced this situation?
You are sitting at your keyboard, typing in the “ultimate” program. You’ve been at it for three hours, and you have two lines left. Suddenly, your wife starts the clothes dryer in the basement… you see a glitch on the screen… POOF!!! Three hours of work down the drain…
This problem is caused because household electricity is “raw”. That is, the current is not carefully regulated, and surges, or “spikes”, can occur instantaneously, possibly causing even permanent damage to your computer.
The solution is to attach a surge protector or voltage regulator to the outlet that your computer is plugged into. But, the cost of the device has been more than the price of most home computers.