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Appears the surge board alone was $30 previously so quite a substantial saving. Available for Click & Collect.
At this time the mobile site incorrectly states that the items are out of stock, you will need to switch to the desktop site.
HPM Power Board Sale: 4 Way Surge $6.30 (Was $30), 4 Way $2.70, 6 Way $3.10, Twin-Pack 4 Way $5 @ Dick Smith
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tightarse on 09/09/2015 - 11:45 dicksmith.com.au (2864 clicks)
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No reason they shouldn't. Brings it down to $5.67 :)
Nope. Just went there and the lady reject to price beat because dick smith have it on special price.
It have to be the normal price if bunnings want to beat it by 10%, strange :\
Figure out that it's not worth it to argue over 63c , better buy from dick smith. But still, it's totally bollocks. Reject price beat because it's the promo price?!
i never have no luck with bunnings' price beat
they always say no when i ask them to match dick smith's price( not beat, but just match)
So bunnings has a price beat thing, but they just reject all claims.
Typical crap from bunnings. Its all marketing BS.
You've seen their ads, lowest prices were only at the beginning.
Everyone should help Masters or we risk just having one major hardware store and then they'll have a monopoly on prices.
Bunnings is better - 10% discount after price beaten than 5% discount at OW.
Yeah, I was sure that $30 price was BS. I bought the exact board a while ago for ~$10 or less — I can't remember where from though.
They're my default around the house, at that price.
Never sure what drugs DSE are on.
$30??
Good price for the surge board, but I'm wary of DS's click & collect. From my experience, I don't think the stock levels are real-time when you check store stock when choosing where to pick up.
I'm wary of DSE full stop, but I will say my click n collect experiences have all been smooth. Maybe I'm just lucky?
Never had any issues either. Returns for online pruchases have been smooth too.
All oos otherwise great deal
No it's not. I just bought a couple now.
Did you choose C&C?
Dangit got it for $6.4 on monday. I've noticed this and I honestly dont know why DS keeps bouncing its prices up/down by 10-20 cents in the 'one day sales.'
To trick people into that they brought either lemon or honey….
Where would they bring it?
Lemon goes to dodgy car yard, honey to the chocolate factory.
How does the HPM Surge board compare to others?
$30 before sale when all the other shops sell for $10-11?
Just DSE pricing BS.
Personally prefer boards with switches for each socket.
FYI try the full site as the mobile site shows out of stock for all items.
P.S: thanks TA ordered 2 C&C from Miranda NSW
Still haven't received my click and collect notice from last deal.
same thing happened to me last time with the sodastream bottle and sirups. I never got a store notice so I called the store one week after and the item was there waiting for me. Today(same click&collect store), I already got the email from the store that my order is ready for pick up!
I've had this problem before. If you log into your DickSmith account (if you made one) and look at your order status it usually has the real-time status there. In the past I've been able to pick something up within the hour but haven't received the notice till the next day.
Unfortunately when the order appears "complete" doesn't always mean the item
is available for you to pick up. It happened to me twice at Hurstville Westfield DickSmith. Ordered and paid in the morning, 2 hours later order complete, went to store after work. Item was available but no order info received by staff. Went back the next morning, order received, iten no longer in stock!I think they may have possibly changed it? For me it doesn't say complete until I've picked it up, when it's ready to pickup it says "Pickup ready" or something similar.
Like the others my experiences have been good with Dick smith but I can definitely believe other people have had issues. Theres been many times I've had to split an order over two stores due to stock levels, then arriving at a store and seeing full stock of items that were 'unavailable'.
It can be bought instore for that price. I was told as there's no code required at the checkout to get those "online only" prices, those prices can be honoured in store no problems.
I was told the opposite, they were complaining about why isn't it the same price, would get more sales through the door compared to people just coming in from C&C. All I was after was another extension lead to add to my C&C order.
That's weird. I just asked the guy behind the counter and he checked and said it was no problem.
Each dse store varies vastly in my experience. From great to down right disgusting. It's an odd franchise.
Thanks TA :)
Bought the 4way surge board for $6.20 during the last deal.
What is the difference between the surge board and the power board?
Powerboard do not have surge protection. Surge Protection designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes (like Lightning strikes spikes etc.)
Quoted from Wikipedia:
In the design of critical infrastructure and military hardware, one concern is of pulses produced by nuclear explosions, whose nuclear electromagnetic pulses distribute large energies in frequencies from 1 kHz into the gigahertz range through the atmosphere.The effect of a voltage spike is to produce a corresponding increase in current (current spike). However some voltage spikes may be created by current sources. Voltage would increase as necessary so that a constant current will flow. Current from a discharging inductor is one example.
For sensitive electronics, excessive current can flow if this voltage spike exceeds a material's breakdown voltage, or if it causes avalanche breakdown. In semiconductor junctions, excessive electric current may destroy or severely weaken that device. An avalanche diode, transient voltage suppression diode, transil, varistor, overvoltage crowbar, or a range of other overvoltage protective devices can divert (shunt) this transient current thereby minimizing voltage.
While generally referred to as a voltage spike, the phenomenon in question is actually an energy spike, in that it is measured not in volts but in joules; a transient response defined by a mathematical product of voltage, current, and time.
Voltage spikes may be created by a rapid buildup or decay of a magnetic field, which may induce energy into the associated circuit. However voltage spikes can also have more mundane causes such as a fault in a transformer or higher-voltage (primary circuit) power wires falling onto lower-voltage (secondary circuit) power wires as a result of accident or storm damage.
Voltage spikes may be longitudinal (common) mode or metallic (normal or differential) mode. Some equipment damage from surges and spikes can be prevented by use of surge protection equipment. Each type of spike requires selective use of protective equipment. For example a common mode[disambiguation needed] voltage spike may not even be detected by a protector installed for normal mode transients.
An uninterrupted voltage increase that lasts more than a few seconds is usually called a "voltage surge" rather than a spike. These are usually caused by malfunctions of the electric power distribution system.
The cheap surge boards will have some very basic surge / impulse protection in the form of probably a single MOV. It won't hurt but generally they're not the be all and end all of protection for your devices. Higher end protection devices have similar but better protection.
Thanks TA, ordered 3 surge boards and a 3m extension and a 5m extension cord, all for $26. I was in need of a couple of surge boards right now, so good timing.
I'm always dubious about these 'surge protectors' being no more than a marketing gimmick. 'Kungbernard's' post pretty much sways be to believe it's just nonsense. Been living in Australia for over 20 years in various states and houses and not once I've actually killed an electronic device typically connected to standard power strips.
Any half decent bit of electronics will have its own protection built in. The cheap surge protectors offer little more than what's built into anything reputable. Surges/impulses etc do happen though. You might have been lucky. It's also very dependent on where you live as the power grid varies significantly.
It is always good to have more protections than less (at least what people believe)
In general, most properties do have sufficient fuse box that to protect from unexpected high current
and for most powerboards (even the cheap ones), they also do comes with a small fuse these daysSo as what you said, its really rare these days that people house being burnt out by voltage spike
most fires that caused by electronics are actually caused by short circuits or overheat etc.However, just keep in mind that unstable current will actually shorten your home appliances life
and surge protectors do have smoothly reduce sudden rise in current
so why not spend a couple more dollars to keep everyone happy? :)Fuse boxes prevent damage due to short circuits and faulty equipment generally. They do very little to protect against surge or impulse. Whilst devices like MOVs shunt excess energy and cause short time over currents they will not be enough for circuit breakers or similar to trip.
Most power boards also have simple circuit breakers to prevent overload. These also will do nothing to protect devices. They are there to protect the power board itself and upstream switches and connections more than anything. Only large faults will trip them and will not be tripped by surges or impulses.
Unstable current can not occur without unstable voltage. Power supplies will handle this within limits. These devices do not protect against "unstable current" and that isn't even "a thing" really.
Consumer surge protectors do not smooth current rise.. where did you hear that?
You would need a decent UPS if you wanted to ensure clean power is delivered to your appliances.
Sorry if my information is a bit mislead
This is where I am coming from…
ref: http://www.explainthatstuff.com/surgeprotectors.htmlQuoted:
The appliances you use draw their power from sockets in the wall. The power from the sockets feeds straight into the appliance down a length of cable. In a surge protector, the main power line (known as the hot wire or live wire) has an extra connection (a kind of "side road") linked to it that feeds to the ground wire (sometimes also called the Earth wire; the protective wire in an electric circuit that sends any unwanted current safely into the earth). Normally, the surge connection is inactive. However, if a larger than normal voltage appears, and produces too much electric current, the excess current is diverted safely down the side road to ground. That means no more current than normal flows into your appliance, so it's better protected from harm.And that translates to
Its not sensitive enough to protect your equipment from small issues, and its not good enough to protect you against large issues.
So you really have to hope for medium sized power surges for it to do anything.
You are right, many people are just misinformed.
Storms can cause power to go off and on frequently, this can cause your electronics to die, a surge protector does not stop this, only a UPS.
A simple blackout can also kill your electronics by chance, especially when all the power comes back on.
A power board does not protect against a near or direct lightning strike, at that point you need a nice and friendly connected equipment warranty if you actually want your surge protector to be useful.
Most people have never had a need for a surge protector, and the people I know who have, they have no actual evidence that a fancy surge protector would have done any different as there was no evidence of typical damage from a surge.
I just bought the 6X jackson board for $19 which has individual switches (which is what I really want) with the added bonus of a 'surge protector'. My skepticism is mostly these cheaper chinese made boards on DSE/ebay etc that are all surge protected and really no way of knowing what they are actually doing. Although if I'm not paying a premium for it I suppose it won't hurt.
As for whether my order will be honored or cancelled - That's up there with winning the lottery with DSE. So far I've been successful may be 25% of the time with these sales and so called stock levels.
edit: lol I knew it. Just got a call from the store and they have no stock and cancelled my order. DSE has to be one of the most useless online stores in Australia!
I just got one (they only had one left) from Office works Melbourne CBD for $5.98 as they matched the price.
I've actually been looking for a power board today. But I wanted one with USB charging on it. I can't believe that none of the models DSE list have usb charging. I mean you go any of those discount stores that deal with electronics, cotd, dealsdirect, kogan, and all of them have a stack of usb models.
EDIT - seems they do. I only found via google, not on their site for some reason
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/printers-office/4-outlet-powerbo…Look at CatchOfTheDay's Connexia range if it isn't too late, I've had great experience with them at about $25 a pop.
Thanks for that. I was actually wondering about them and was searching online for reviews. I saw some forum where they said nasty, but then they didn't really give any real options.
Do you use the USB on it?
I do and it works well for me.
Yeah, I have these two different models:
https://www.catchoftheday.com.au/product/8-outlet-connexia-s…
https://www.catchoftheday.com.au/product/10-outlet-connexia-…I'm not sure exactly how power boards can be "crap" unless they're from the $2 shop, but in my opinion they feel high quality, USB ports work great and give out the specified mA, and I haven't had a problem with them at all. Almost had them for a year now.
I have noticed they aren't as cheap at the moment as they have been in the past though!
Grabbed the last 2 HPM 4 outlet powerboard surge from Bourke Street for $5.97 after I mentioned Dick Smith online offer.
Accidentally brought the 4 way without surge protector rather than the surge one. Was reading some comment on how they do little in terms of protection. Is it worth making an additional order for the surge ones and returning the current ones upon collect?
Buy a UPS instead or get a surge protector with a connected warranty.
Really depends where you bring it too.
I picked up a 12 outlet surge board, 6 outlet power board and 5m extension cord for $27. Took all 3 items to the counter for a price check and got quoted normal pricing. Mentioned the online exclusive price and the sales assistant punched in the Web Price code and bam. Most pleased with the $55 -> $20 discount price for the 12 outlet surge board.
How can dick smith sell this for 29.98 and officeworks and Bunnings $11? Lol
Anyway officeworks price beat it for me no probs
$11.10 at bunnings maybe they will beat it
http://www.bunnings.com.au/hpm-4-outlet-surge-protected-powe…