Surge Protector usage

[Alexandrious1]

I have a question regarding surge protectors. So I am looking at two expensive ones, a 149 dollar Rocketfish, and a 199 dollar Monster, both has all the bells and whistles, the rocketfish has 5200 joules, the Monster 3400ish. The Monster seems to have higher quality however and alot more protections and features in place. I get about a 80-120 dollar discount on either of em.

But heres the question. I have a TV on one side, my New Rig in the middle, and my Computer Desk on the other side. The TV is a 60 Inch Samsung SUHD 4k. The Rig is running off a G3 EVGA Super Nova 1000w. I also have a PS4 Pro, a Mini desktop I like to call the AFK box *For BDO* a Nintendo Switch, a charger for my 3DS and a Phone charger all with the T.V. The Computer desk side has of course the two monitors, modem and router.

Would it be safe, to use just one of these high end Surge protector units for all of these devices in one power outlet socket, or use two separate protectors thus utilizing two power sockets? Or should I have a separate Power Outlet for both thus also two separate protectors? The houses electrical is in relatively good condition. Would love to know what you all think. Thank-you.

 

[InvalidError]

The most critical part of surge protection is to reference all external connections to the same local ground point that everything else is connected to. If you have one surge protector on one side of the room and a computer on a possibly different circuit across the room with the two connected by an HDMI cable, there can be a voltage difference between the TV's ground and your PC's ground that will cause a surge through the HDMI cable and possibly kill both your TV and GPU.

If you mix grounds, the most expensive surge protector in the world still can't save you.

 

[Alexandrious1]

So your saying, keep T.V and all it has connected to, like say the consoles, and the PC its connected to, to one Surge protector unit? Having the PC connected to one protector and the T.V thats on another protector, but is connected to the PC via HDMI is bad?

Hmm...I guess I been lucky so far.

So its ok to use a different protector in each of the two sockets on the same outlet then? Spite all that power draw?

 

[InvalidError]

Any external cable (coax, phone, LAN, IO from elsewhere) that connects to your "surge protected" cluster and isn't locally grounded there is a potential ingress path for a surge through the equipment connected at the other end. Note that this sort of surge mainly pertains to nearby lightning strikes. Power line surges are rarely severe enough to be an issue in that manner.

As for "being lucky", lacking surge suppression is not a guarantee that you'll have issue, just like how having surge suppression is not a guarantee that you won't run into issues either. Much of it hangs on local power quality and whether your building's wiring is correctly grounded. In most modern electrical codes, all service wiring entering a building must be grounded or protected as close as possible to either the building's distribution bus bar (for MDUs), power utility meter or breaker box. That's your first and most important line of defense against surges.