Where I live in the mountains I am subject to rather frequent power outages. Sometimes they are due to Sou. Cal Edison shutting down the power during high wind conditions as a fire precaution. The good news is that I have a Generac 16 kW generator that is hard wired into my main panel and kicks on automatically within a few seconds of the power going out. Lightning strikes are not common, but certainly possible.
I just bought a CTEK MXS 5.0 battery charger/maintainer unit and have installed it in my garage to use for my cars that sometimes are not driven for a few weeks.
It is only plugged into a wall outlet when in use, would it be a good idea to have it plugged into a surge protector, as I do with my computer and audio/video system, TV, etc. ?
I just bought a CTEK MXS 5.0 battery charger/maintainer unit and have installed it in my garage to use for my cars that sometimes are not driven for a few weeks.
It is only plugged into a wall outlet when in use, would it be a good idea to have it plugged into a surge protector, as I do with my computer and audio/video system, TV, etc. ?