Edit: As others have pointed out, it seems switching them off does stop them from drawing power.

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    1 year ago

    Surely you thought of this, but a lot of surge protectors have (used to have?) a battery backup for short outages. Keeps the PC on so you can save your data.

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      1 year ago

      Those are not surge protectors, but uninterruptible power supplies- most of which will have a surge protection circuit, mind.

      Edit: for comparison, this is a UPS:

      It weighs 5 pounds, and is about the size of a shoe box. The batteries don’t provide surge protection- instead those use a circuit to effectively trickle charge and maintain the battery. If normal power is lost, that circuit flips over to discharging the battery.

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        Ah I was aware they made surge protectors without battery backup, but I wrongly thought they were both just ‘surge protectors’ and wondered if OP somehow left out that his had a battery backup.