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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by abui01
It's all in the wing

Clay, it's common for electronics to blow out if you give it a faulty power source. General rule of thumb: power strips aren't suppose to buzz... period. If it does, there's a spike in voltage giving the TV a varying degree of volts. Not surprising it could short out the TV or any electrical device for that matter.
Lesson learned. When I upgraded and bought all the new stuff I should've just bought a new surge protector as well.
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Jgrizzle
Also too if you have 1000s of dollars locked up in home entertainment you need to make sure you have something better than a $10 surge protector.
*casually reaches in pocket and dumps handful of nickels over J-Grizzle's head*
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by mutation666
Meh $20 one works fine, never had a expensive one on my tvs.
Never need one until its too late

The newer ones arent crazy expensive but definitely have some nice features on them like eliminating power drain etc when things are in Stand by and decent nosie and interference filtering (ive needed this when using projectors). I also like the ones that protect Coaxial cables and phone lines (not that I have phone lines but sometimes ive needed it for alarms). The Coax one is nice if you have an HD antenna. I dunno, for $60-$100 you get a lot for your money.
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 08:06 AM
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Clay, sometimes devices will over heat causing them to shut down into a safe mode, after X much time they turn back on.

I don't think the strip was the issue unless everything else was acting up also.
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 08:56 AM
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Welp, just came back with a brand new power strip ($79.99, or 1500 nickels?) replugged everything and it's working fine again. Also picked up DOA 5 too.

Once again, no clue why this happened but if it was the power strip I'd much rather be out of pocket $80 than have to replace my whole condo due to an electrical fire.
But if this thing goes black again I'm putting this b*tch on the curb and getting another Samsung.
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 09:29 AM
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Just passed the smog test. Good until nov 2014.

Clay that's a lot of dollhairs I mean coin.
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by WYZIWYG
*casually reaches in pocket and dumps handful of nickels over J-Grizzle's head*
Lol I spit out my orange juice after I read that!
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by WYZIWYG
Welp, just came back with a brand new power strip ($79.99, or 1500 nickels?) replugged everything and it's working fine again. Also picked up DOA 5 too.

Once again, no clue why this happened but if it was the power strip I'd much rather be out of pocket $80 than have to replace my whole condo due to an electrical fire.
But if this thing goes black again I'm putting this b*tch on the curb and getting another Samsung.
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 02:36 PM
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And they also make shytty jokes and will run that shytty joke INTO THE GROUND.
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Shin Beats
And they also make shytty jokes and will run that shytty joke INTO THE GROUND.
Just like insurance fraud?
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 03:08 PM
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When did I use insurance fraud against any of you df's making nickel jokes?
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by ImWeeZzel
Lol I spit out my orange juice after I read that!
We're still in a recession dammit! You can't be spitting out perfectly good orange juice like that!!!
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Old Oct 1, 2012 | 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by WYZIWYG
We're still in a recession dammit! You can't be spitting out perfectly good orange juice like that!!!
It's okay. Marco spit out 5 cents worth of juice. Once awhile we got to be wasteful to be symbolic.
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Old Oct 2, 2012 | 12:38 AM
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This happened in Frederick over the weekend:


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Old Oct 2, 2012 | 03:04 AM
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Its funny how the people on the video complaint about the other GTR driver when they did the exact same thing.

The only difference is that the guy after them had to pass the truck and the guys with the camera at the same time.

These two were lucky they passed the truck a few feet before the crest.
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Old Oct 2, 2012 | 03:05 AM
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Oh crap! I didn't even noticed that the user that uploaded the video is called "Alex Shin"!

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Old Oct 2, 2012 | 03:27 AM
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Damn... classic case of not knowing the roads/ area and making a very bad decision, I don't think either of those cars had to accelerate that hard to pass that truck, especially because a turn circle was coming up and they could have got around him afterwards...
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Old Oct 2, 2012 | 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Shin Beats
And they also make shytty jokes and will run that shytty joke INTO THE GROUND.
Being a scumbag never goes away. As long as you're here, you will always be worth less than a Scat film fluffer to the Mid-A. Complaining will only make it worse. Texting me to "please stop the BS" will only make it worse.

.05hin
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Old Oct 2, 2012 | 04:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Alberto
Being a scumbag never goes away. As long as you're here, you will always be worth less than a Scat film fluffer to the Mid-A. Complaining will only make it worse. Texting me to "please stop the BS" will only make it worse.

.05hin
He seriously texted you? You have got to be F'ing kidding me.
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Old Oct 2, 2012 | 05:57 AM
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If I posted half the $hit he has texted me you would actually think less of him. Yes, that is possible.
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