▲ 94 ▼ Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe -1 points 2 days ago Could go either way. I think a surge protector needs the ground to detect the surge. I own many power strips that are grounded, but have zero surge protection. These are commercial-grade units with built in, real circuit breakers. I have a bunch of cheap ones with ground too. I don't buy surge protectors. They fail in weird ways. permalink fedilink source parent