Sold on surge protection, publishes only an overload trip
A ten-port clip-mount strip with the highest published load ceiling in this hub, 1625 W at 13 A, whose only published protection is an overload trip rather than a surge rating.
VIPWELL clip-mount strip with six outlets and four USB ports
Best for: A desk or a wall that needs ten ports and a mount that does not depend on having an edge.
Ten ports is the pitch, and the count holds up: six AC outlets and four USB, two of them USB-C, on a body of 12.8 by 2.2 by 1.3 in that clips to a wall, to the underside of a desk, or round a table leg without a bracket. The load ceiling is the highest published on this shelf — 1625 W at 13 A, where the Anker gives none — and the plug is a flat 45-degree type on a 6 ft cord, so it can live behind furniture.
What the page does not contain is the number this hub compares first. The opening bullet is headed “ROBUST SURGE PROTECTION” and the second refers to “a high-performance outlet extender surge protector to shield your valuable electronics”. No joule rating appears anywhere on the listing. The Anker and TROND strips alongside it publish 1500 J and 1440 J.
The mechanism the listing does describe is a different one, and it describes it carefully: “This switch is designed to automatically trip (shut off) to protect your devices when electronic device connected load exceeds 13A /1625W. If it keeps tripping, please check if your device is overloaded.” That is overload protection — a breaker for drawing too much current — and it is genuinely useful. It is not what a surge rating in joules measures, which is the energy a suppressor can absorb from a spike coming the other way. Both sentences are the manufacturer’s; the distinction between them is the reason this hub asks for the figure.
Read on the day this page was built: $29 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Best for: A desk or a wall that needs ten ports and a mount that does not depend on having an edge.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-13. The live price is at the top of the page.
The listing says so and does not support it with a figure. The headline bullet reads "10 IN 1 ROBUST SURGE PROTECTION" and mentions a "high-performance outlet extender surge protector to shield your valuable electronics", but no joule rating appears anywhere on the page. The one protective mechanism it actually describes is an overload switch that "automatically trip (shut off) to protect your devices when electronic device connected load exceeds 13A /1625W" — that is a circuit breaker reacting to too much current drawn, not a suppressor absorbing a voltage spike. The other two strips among the US listings in this hub publish 1500 J and 1440 J.
VIPWELL does not say. The listing states four USB ports, two of them USB-C, and that they "deliver optimal power, eliminating the need for bulky adapters" — with no voltage, no current and no wattage. The buying tip at the top of this hub exists for exactly this gap.
The one strip in this hub whose USB-C output is published high enough to run a laptop — 70 W using GaN — with 1500 joules of surge protection and an unusually blunt statement of which desks it will not fit.
Best for: A desk where the laptop charger should disappear and the strip has a straight edge to clamp to.
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