Why no surge protector/power strip?

This was discussed before – something about the way that surge protectors work, if you daisy chain them it can cause problems where they fail. It’s not a GF thing, it’s a surge suppressor thing. Since the GF has internal suppression, plugging it into an external suppressor is effectively daisy chaining.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/h61s9/why_is_it_dangerous_to_daisychain_surge_protectors/

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+shouldnt+you+chain+surge+suppressors

and last of all…

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=surge%20suppressor

Which yields:

Which is the “previously on GF forum…” discussion I was referring to.

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