PowerExtend 12 - Power Strip with dual surge protection

[Momo_Bobo]

Not much can be said about this 12 outlet power strip by Anker, but if you need 12 outlets, this should be your go to power strip

1. 6 outlets series, 6 spaced-out outlets for those Bricks

2. The power strip comes with a THICK wire (14 AWG) and appears to have some writing that says “300 Volts” on it, if that is helpful for anyone, length is 6ft

3. From the picture below, you can see that the outlets do NOT have any child protection built in that would prevent your child from sticking things into the terminals, you can see from a side by side comparison with the Anker PowerStrip 3 outlet. If you are going to use this power strip, I would assume this would not be lying around within reach of your children, so it may not be necessary…

4. 2 indicator lights for showing dual surge protection is active and 1 indicator light for ground. The switch itself has a LED light built inside which illuminates white, pretty neat (see picture)

5. Overall, this feels like a very sturdy well built power strip, I decided not to test the dual surge protection… I’ll just wait for an electrical surge to happen and come back and update this review to tell you guys how well this survived… I have a JABRA AC TO DC switching adapter that started making hissing sounds when plugged in. I read that it has to do with an electrical surge that may have affected the capacitor? If anyone can confirm this is the case that would be awesome, but thankfully I have a spare… anyways I would be plugging that bad boy into a surge protector power strip like this one to avoid that happening again…

6. I like this. And if you have many things you need to plug into one power strip or lacking outlets, you should get it…

This is a review product, enjoy the pictures…
Thank you @AnkerOfficial

[paulstevenewing]

Glad you enjoyed the PowerStrip @Momo_Bobo
Great to see some real life photos

[professor]

Thanks for your review, as we said, there’s not much anyone can do to test this unit.

Surge protection uses multiple strategies. One is what is called an LRC curcuit (Inductor, resistor, capacitor) which has a resonant frequency designed to match the local AC regular frequency. Resonance is where the LC part produces no resistance at that frequency. A surge would represent a frequency other than regular frequency so the LC then becomes off-resonance and acts as a resistor. Yes a surge would tend to fry a capacitor, but the act of frying it meant it absorbed energy and then most probably it becomes a resistor. The other method is a diode which has a maximum reverse voltage, pointing opposite, in series with a resistor, when the voltage gets above a level the diode then fails, let current through, which then goes through to trigger a mechanical solenoid and so power is turned off.

If anyone wants to do a teardown and so we see what’s inside?

Your failed protector, if the current through it got high enough to melt the solder but not fail the unit, then the natural vibration dampening would be reduced and you’d get an increased likelihood of an audible ringing sound.

[Momo_Bobo]

Thank you for the explanation professor, I plan on tearing open the switching adapter soon

[ikari04warrior]

good job on the review

[Shenoy]

Nice review, hope you enjoy the strip

[matthewdmorais]

Dang that has a lot of ports, my power strip 3 only has 3. I need that for my desk with my computer.

[Isaac_Schloss]

It’s pretty cool that there are different versions of this. The spacing on the outlets is what narrows it down. Especially with the bricks as some of the prongs are parralell and some aren’t so it makes using it efficient

[Ice1]

Nice review, thanks for the photos

[Shivam_Shah]

Nice quick review. Hope your things survive during power surges

[ndalby]

Good job on the review and photos @Momo_Bobo

[professor]

Idea:

Make one row with the 3rd prong outwards, other row 3rd prong inwards, so bricks designed to be up or down facing don’t clash?

As designed it has the issue if all big bricks go up or down.

[chrisjwaggoner]

Thanks for the review. Hope you enjoy it!

[Isaac_Schloss]

I’m thinking AC adapter and they usually take up space for more than one receptical

[AnkerOfficial]

Thank you for your awesome review as usual!

[Momo_Bobo]

Without actually tearing one down, from the image on amazon.com, If accurate, I can see 2 inductors and the blue components appear to be ceramic capacitors, this must use the IRC method your referring to…

[The_Bearded_Tech_Guy]

thanks for the review

[TechnicallyWell]

Nice review!