Review on 💡 ESP Digital QC Model D5133NT Surge Protector/Noise Filter - 120V, 15A: Ultimate Power Protection and Noise Suppression by Tom Goodlow

I first heard about ESP and their surge protectors when I was working as a salesman for Konica Minolta (a copier manufacturer) more than ten years ago. I remember an ESP rep came in and gave us a demo with a large, industrial looking orange case designed to simulate various electrical problems; electrical interference and lightning strikes. If you go to YouTube and search "ESP Surge Protector" you will find a video with the same demo that I personally saw. It was impressive, but in my four years at KM I had never seen a customer struck by lightning, and at the time I wasn't sure there was really a way to see the effects of "electrical noise" the way it did was expected to significantly shorten the lifespan of digital devices. However, an ESP rep convinced me to offer it to my customers as an insurance measure (covers up to $100,000 in replacement costs if the copier is damaged if I remember correctly) and if a company charges $5,000 to $100,000 for one copier outputs . , a few hundred more - a drop in the bucket. In 2008 it was time to buy my first flat screen TV. Ten years changes a lot (flat screen TV costs in this case), and in that time my 46-inch Samsung LCD monitor cost me almost $2,500. After the guy from Best Buy talked about the monster surge protector for my new TV, I remembered ESP and their guarantee/warranty for the cost of replacing hardware. "If that's enough for a $100,000 copier, then it's enough for my $2,500 TV," so I decided to ditch the monster and buy an ESP. Almost two years later, I moved in with a friend whose house was originally built. in the 1940s, however, a "large room" was added. 1980s. The TV was in my bedroom at the time and after about a month of trying to figure out why my TV kept turning off 5 minutes after I turned it on, I finally gave in, unplugged it and put it in a larger one Space . until I found time to take it to electronics recycling. A month later I found the time so I decided to take it out but before that I put it back in the big room for the last time. Worked great. Wonderful, I thought, pulling him back into the bedroom. Turned on, turned off after 5 minutes. I dragged it back to the great room, plugged it in, turned it on immediately and watched a two-hour movie. As soon as the movie ended and I started thinking about everything again, it dawned on me. The problem was the 1940's wiring because it worked great with the 1980's wiring. The ESP detected "electrical noise" from the aging wiring and turned itself off, and the TV turned itself off to prevent my investment from receiving "dirty energy" that destroys digital devices! It does what I paid for! Long story short, this 2008 Samsung 46 inch LCD TV lasted me through 2018, a decade when the internal circuit board finally wore out (the circuit board turned out to be a poorly designed point of failure was and should never have held me). That's long). Worth every penny. One last note I have to make about these ESP surge protectors. I had a second USED ESP surge protector from my KM days (which the customer gave me when returning his rented copier) that died in 2017. Coincidentally, my neighbor is a retired electrical engineer. We were talking one day, and I gave him got a dead one out of curiosity and asked him to hack it and let me know if it's just a regular old surge protector or something (just to make sure the tv isn't just in my head) got a week later we caught it and it was reported that it wasn't your regular old surge protector but "some serious shit". He said that this is a very interesting device. I don't speak an "electrical" engineer, so what he said afterwards was nonsense to me. Needless to say, I'm in love with ESP surge protectors. They're really expensive, no doubt about that, but how could we better protect all of our expensive electronic digital investments? Since I bought my first one in 2008 I've bought 10 more, no kidding. I have ESP surge protectors on 3 TVs, 2 computers, 2 refrigerators, my water softener, my water heater, my microwave and one in the bedroom for our phone chargers. If it's cost me a lot, I think it's worth paying a little extra to extend its natural lifespan with PERSONALLY TESTED protection against "dirty force" and lightning strikes. I recently found out that ESP sells whole house protection for your Switch and I'm seriously considering this as the next upgrade for our house. I sincerely hope that this review of their amazing product has been helpful to you. While I have (technically via KM) received monetary compensation for selling their products in the past, I have not received any compensation since I had my first personal experience of protecting their products and I am now not receiving any compensation for their products . . I am happy to answer questions about ESP mains filters (to the best of my knowledge and belief).