Don't Give In To Your Surges

If you have electronic equipment, specifically a desktop computer or high end musical equipment, you should have it connected to a surge protector. Surge protectors regulate the electricity coming in from your local utility in order to ensure that your equipment will not receive any sudden spikes. Spikes can really mess up your gear.

Your traditional surge protectors look just like the power bars that we all know, except maybe a little bit chunkier. Since these days a lot of equipment have built in circuit breakers the plugs are usually quite large. You work away for hours trying to find a configuration so that you can use all six outlets on the power bar, but you end up only being able to plug in three or four. Then along came the squid.

The Power Squid is not a revolutionary product, it is simply a very high quality adaptation of something that's been around for a while. But it is nice to have the flexibility of the Power Squid and when I upgrade my power surge protection I am going to go with this product. As you can see in the picture, the main difference is that the female outlets are not fixed in a bar but come out on a cord. This means you can move them around and plug in the chunkiest damn plugs you have ever seen.

They carry three surge protection products, the Surge3000 Calamari, Surge3000 and Surge1000 ranging from $50 to $75 US (on sale until March 30). They also carry a few models that act simply like an extension cord and are priced accordingly (from $16). You can order them directly from their website and they also have two resellers located in Vancouver.