I just bought this surge protector which has the master/slave function, so that it disables some plugs (2 monitors and 2 speakers) when I turn off my PC. Everything is working fine except for one thing: around 7AM (always at the same time in the morning) it starts turning on and off the plugs at an interval of 1 second or so.
This is the third time this happens and I have to wake up to turn the main switch off, since the devices connected to it might get seriously damaged from this behavior. When I turn the surge protector back on after an hour or so everything is back to normal. I also tried to set the Threshold level switch (link to the surge protector manual) to the maximum level (80 W), so that a large amount of power has to be drawn from the master plug to power the slaves on, but nothing has changed.
I was about to return the product, but then I thought "how is it possible for a defective product to always starts misbehaving at the exact same time?". So, can the problem be PC-related? Something like it absorbing energy at 7AM to keep the CMOS battery charged... And how to prevent this behavior? Please don't just tell me to "turn the surge protector off at night".
Thanks in advance!
