How Voltage Surges
Can Cause Damage in Your Home
Our homes are filled with sensitive electronics. These devices are easily damaged by common power surges, also called transients, spikes or voltage impulses. It only takes a lightning storm near your home to create a high-energy electrical surge that can enter your house and destroy your appliances, TVs, stereo equipment and almost all other modern electrical products. Surges can travel on your electrical, telephone, and cable lines. This unwanted energy travels down a conductor and passes through your electronic and electrical equipment. Lightning is one of the most damaging sources of surges entering your home. Other sources include utility grid switching, other users on the power-line, and internal surges from air conditioners and power tools.
Mr. Sparky installs a whole house surge
suppressor in your
electrical panel, to guard against any damage. The best place to
install surge protection is at the electrical entrance point to
your home. The service entrance (loadcenter or breaker panel) is
often where AC, telephone lines and cable lines are located.
Applying a surge suppression device to your service entrance
(Stage 1) will reduce a voltage surge to an acceptable level for
appliances and surge strips. We do this by using a "Surge
Breaker" as close to the "Main Breaker" as possible.
Surge Breaker installed and complete!
$129.95
No additional fees!
Includes (1) Surge Breaker installed in a UL Listed breaker panel. Note- Fuse panels cannot be protected!
What Needs to
Be Protected?
Lightning-related surges can destroy equipment suddenly. Smaller level
surges continually eat away at the computer chips inside your equipment,
eventually causing component damage.
APPLIANCES
Most modern appliances contain smart computer chips. These digital circuits are vulnerable to surges. The following are some examples of appliances that contain computer chips:
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Stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers and other countertop appliances■
Microwave ovens■
Air conditioners■
Washers and dryers■
Lighting controls■
Garage door openersELECTRONICS
Electronic equipment is jammed with digital circuits. In the computer age, devices are getting smaller, faster and more complicated. The following electronic devices are products commonly found in homes:
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Televisions■
Stereo systems■
Entertainment centers■
Personal computers■
Fax machines■
Photocopiers■
Satellite receivers■
Internet modems■
Telephone answering machines■
Clock radios
