Whole Home Surge Protection is Affordable & Easy
With quality home surge protection costing as little as $350 installed, it makes sense to look at protecting all of your electric devices and appliances with one easy whole home solution.
Whole home surge protectors install at the main electrical pane or meter feed and offer a huge amount of protection for a very reasonable cost. Installation can be easily done in less than a day and the system allows you to monitor for any undetected surges and see that the unit is working.
Cost of Electrical Surges and Lightening Strikes to Homeowners
North Carolina ranks 6th in the nation for lightening strike damage claims filed to homeowners' insurance. In 2018, the average claim for these was $11,561. This dollar value on damage has been steadily increasing as our homes have more and more appliances, electronic devices and Smart Home features that contain delicate electronic circuit boards. These newer devices are particularly sensitive to the damaging effects of power surges.
Surges can also come directly from your main power feed or even from within your home. Damage caused to transformers, lines, sub-stations or other electrical provider equipment by weather, faulty equipment or other causes can create a surge in the electrical feed and sending excess voltage directly to your home.
Why Surge Protect Your Whole Home & do you need it?
Our modern homes are filled with more and more devices that have sensitive electrical components. As more and more appliances become "smart" or "programmable", these can easily be damaged or destroyed in the event of a power surge. These now affect almost every room in your home.
How Does Home Surge Protection Work?
Whole Home Surge Protectors work by regulating the voltage coming through your main electrical line to your meter or main electrical panel. Voltage spikes and surges are blocked from reaching your appliances by pushing (shorting) the excess voltage to your grounding system. The whole home surge protector acts like a pressure release valve, if excess voltage is sensed on the line, the surge protector stops it and sends it to ground, protecting your home wiring and appliances/devices inside the home.
Data Source: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-lightning
POWER SURGES CAN DAMAGE:
Smart Televisions
Stereo Equipment & Entertainment Systems
Smart Home Lighting & Controls
Microwaves
Dishwashers
Stoves/Ovens
Washing Machines & Dryers
Furnace & HVAC Systems
Programmable Thermostats
Smart Home Systems
Routers & Networks
Computers
Tablets (when charging)
Phones (when charging)
Grounding vs Surge Protection in Your Home
Most of us are familiar with the grounding rod that is driven into the ground and connected to our home. Grounding systems connect all metal parts in a building that could become energized together. This system is then connected to neutral wire coming into your home. The neutral connection allows breakers to trip when a hot wire comes into contact with this system of grounded parts. The system is then connected to the earth with rods, underground metal water pipes and other means. Often your incoming cable, telephone and any gas lines are connected to this same grounding system. The sole purpose of the grounding system is to limit higher voltages and disperse them safely into the earth. This limiting helps protect your home from the significant damage that can be caused by a lighting strike or other surge. However, it’s not enough by itself to protect the sensitive electronics in most devices and appliances today.
Your home grounding system is an essential component in surge protection for allowing the surge protection system to safely disperse the excess voltage but it does not in fact protect your home against the surge itself.
Voltage spikes and surges are blocked detected and blocked pushing (shorting) the excess voltage to your grounding system by a home surge protector. The whole home surge protector acts like a pressure release valve, if excess voltage is sensed on the line, the surge protector stops it and sends it to ground and away from appliances & devices.