Are your Power Strips enough to protect your electronics & appliances from being fried in a storm?
Maybe not! Many people enjoy sitting in front of a picture window watching a spring storm roll through. The dark, forward pushing clouds glowing with each lightning strike and the wall of rain settling overhead—it’s quite the site. However, your opinion of spring storms may change if one of those lightning bolts causes a big power surge to hit your home. You could be left with hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, of big appliances and fancy electronics fried! Consider for a moment everything that runs on electricity in your home.
and destroy appliances, televisions, stereo equipment, and other electrical products
Let’s first cover the basics:
You have a washer and dryer, a refrigerator, a stove, a dishwasher, lamps, ceiling fans, and more. If you’re like most people, you also have at least one large HDTV (if not two or more), a computer or two, a stereo, a DVD player, maybe a gaming system, and the list continues. As a culture, we thrive on electrical devices and for good reason: They make life easier and much more entertaining! They’re also very expensive…
Can you imagine if all of them went useless with one big flash in the sky? It’s possible with just one surge…What’s that? You’re very careful and have all of those devices plugged into power strips? Well, I would say that your intentions are good, but power strips often are NOT enough to protect your valuable electronics and appliances. They don’t have the capacity to stop the really big surges. By the way, storms aren’t the only things that create surges—surges can come from blown transformers, utility grid fluctuations, and other users on a power lines!
What about small surges?
There’s another type of surge that you may not know about. In fact, did you know that your home is likely hit by several small surges every single day—and you didn’t even know it? It’s true. Small surges are caused almost every day thanks to large electrical appliances and equipment in your home turning off and on. Each small surge slowly eats away at the circuit inside everything electronic that is plugged into your home’s electrical system. So, I hope you weren’t planning on your big-screen TV lasting forever!
Protect your home from power surges
Thankfully, there’s something you can do to protect yourself from these power surges… call Captain Electric today. We can evaluate your home’s electrical system, your appliances and electronics, and suggest a way to protect your entire home from destructive surges.
For more information, visit the surge protection page on the Captain Electric website.