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    Setting Up a Home Office: The Electrical and Backup Power You Actually Need

    Working from home in Johannesburg means load-shedding can stop your income. The dedicated power, surge protection and backup to keep your home office running.

    28 March 2026 6 min read
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    When you work from home, load-shedding isn't an inconvenience — it's lost income. A properly set-up home office keeps you online and productive through outages, safely. Here's what it needs.

    Proper power, not a plug spider

    A desk full of equipment needs enough dedicated, protected sockets — not a tangle of extension leads, which are a fire risk and offer no surge protection. If you're short on points, it's a quick job to add sockets properly.

    Stay online through load-shedding

    A small inverter or UPS sized to your desk load — laptop, monitor, router, lights — keeps you working silently and automatically. Crucially, put your router and fibre ONT on the backup too; many people power the PC but forget the internet and lose connectivity anyway.

    Protect your equipment

    Load-shedding surges and Highveld lightning kill computers and networking gear. Whole-home surge protection plus plug-level protectors for your devices is cheap insurance against losing expensive equipment and data.

    Set it up right

    We design home-office power — dedicated sockets, surge protection and right-sized backup — so an outage never costs you a day's work. Get a home-office power setup or explore energy efficiency.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Enough dedicated, properly-protected sockets (not extension-lead spiders), surge protection for your equipment, reliable internet power, and ideally backup power so load-shedding doesn't stop your work. A small inverter/UPS keeps a laptop, screen, router and lights running through outages.

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