Ya I guess the biggest concern is power outages, spikes...I live in a residential area fairly new but seems like every time there is a storm of any kind the power goes down. More concern for damaging equipment, I have spent enough money that I really should make sure that I've done what I can do, what is reasonable.
Losing power is not going to damage your electronic equipment - the actual hardware. It is essentially the same thing as turning off the device. Software could become corrupted if it isn't properly shut down or you could have data loss like on a computer.
Now there are instances when you lose power and when the power comes back on, devices don't work. That's not from losing power but from an actual surge that occurred simultaneously.
