> so, tripplite gives a false sense of security?

Anyone can read specification numbers. Most, who recommend bogus products or myths, ignore numbers. Tripplite is not giving a false sense of security. That misconception comes from anyone who believes the first thing told and who never learns or demands perspective - ie numbers.

It is not about a well grounded home. It is about how hundreds of thousands of joules dissipate. A path, used by lightning to connect the cloud to distant earthborne charges (located miles away), defines protection.

This concept was introduced to everyoine in elementary school science. Franlkin's lightning rod (like a protector) does not do protection. That rod (like a protector) is only a connecting device to what does protection - to what harmlessly absorbs hundreds of thousands of joules.

A well grounded home (per NEC) only defines human protection. A grounded home for appliance protection must exceed those requirements. Other grounds inside any house are irrelevant. For example, a wall receptacle safety ground clearly is not earth ground. Tripplite has no earth ground connection. Tripplite will not discuss it to protect obscenely profitable sales.

How profitable is that Tripplite? Take a $3 power strip. Add some ten cent protector parts. Sell it for $25. Monster has a long history of identifying and then duplicating scams. An electrically equivalent protector, selling in Walmart for $10, is sold by Monster for over $85. Because so many only believe the first thing told. Because so many never demand spec numbers. Because some here do not even know what a protector does.

Tripplite has no low impedance connection to earth. Where do hunderds of thousands of joules dissipate? Destructively inside a building. Because the path to earth is inside; therefore destructive.

Informed consumers spend about $1 per protected appliance for a 'whole house' solution. Then one 'whole house' protector connects direct lightning strikes harmlessly to earth on a low impedance (ie 'less than 10 foot') path - that stays outside. Even a protector must not fail. Then nobody knows a surge existed. A least expensive solution is the only solution always found in every facility that cannot have damage. They also do not foolishly waste money on the Tripplite, Monster, and other ineffective protectors.

These facilities inspect and upgrade their earth ground and inspect how surges connect to that electrode. A protector is only as effective as its earth ground. No way around this relevant question: where do hundreds of thousands of joules harmlessly dissipate. Solution is a system; not some magic box such as Tripplite.