After plugging in a vacume cleaner into a surge protector (my wife needed to clean) my surge protector decided it had enough and shut down never to start again.

As I need a new surge protector I am wondering what are the minimum requirements that I need to protect my desktop, scanner, printer, modem, monitor, etc... I would like guideline on joules, max amps etc... If there is one that I can also use with the phone line that would be good too.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Doc