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Domestic surge arrester is not mandatory, so why are so many people now assembling it?

The reason is money. The cost of a domestic surge arrestor such as our SY2-D is negligible compared with buying a new TV or replacing the electrical items in your house. Do a quick mental calculation of how much your electrical items are worth, your TV, washing machine, cooker, fridge and not forgetting all of the things you plug in to charge, such as phones, tablets and laptops. Now you can see how that bill would quickly mount up if your home was effected by surges.

Surges occur in every electrical system, they can come from your mains power, turning lights on or turning on large electrical items (such as a washing machine). Unlike lightning damage, Surge damage isn’t as easily seen, it won’t be anything dramatic like blowing up or setting on fire as can occur with lightning damage. Surges just slowly degrade all of the electrical components in your electrical system, which will shorten the life span of your electrical items. A TV that should last 5 years could only potentially last 2 years, if it’s seeing continuous surges.

Many people say “I don’t need to worry about surges, I use those surge protection trailing leads”. The problem with using these trailing leads as your only form of surge protection is that you don’t plug everything in to them, even the most safety conscious person would not think of plugging their washing machine or fridge through a trailing lead. When you start looking at how many of these trailing leads you would need to protect your whole house, can you imagine how much that would cost? Obviously it would be less than replacing all of your electrical goods, but still expensive, especially when you consider that the majority of surge arrester trailing leads sold have little or no information on how they actually work or whether they comply with any sort of standards or regulations.

The most effective and cost-effective way to protect domestic property from waste is domestic surge arrester. This can be installed inside (or next to) of any consumer unit, which is easily connected to a connection in parallel with an adjacent circuit breaker, to a connection with a neutral line, and to a ground bar, so your entire installation is protected from surge.

Article from:

http://www.surgedevices.co.uk/