Other than the lightning part.
If your appliance short circuit, without using surge protector, your house main circuit breaker might tripped, fuse blown or if old circuit breaker, might even cause damage to other appliances.
By plugging your appliance on the surge protector, the damage will just stop at the multisocket strip surge protector.
Serious question : Are you sure the ordinary Belkin surge protector can protect against excess current due to short circuit? Tell me which component the Belkin surge protector has that can do this? As far as I can tell, there are no circuit breakers in the cheap Belkin strips.
If not sure, better not anyhow claim that surge protector can do the same function as circuit breaker, especially when safety is at stake.
I have no training myself, so I want to get clarification, but what I have learnt is the circuit breaker and surge protector are different, but I could be wrong also.
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