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by noahbp 90 days ago
When I lived in Costa Rica, I lost three surge protectors in a year to power surges. During one such power surge, I didn't notice that the red light indicating surge protection was already out, and a power surge fried my (knockoff) Macbook power adapter, leaving me without a way to work for a day.
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There's no real indicator on those things.

It's a 10 cent component that would require a $10k machine (this is old data) to do a non-destructive test.