Whole Home Surge Protector Installation In Castle Rock, CO
Protect Your Home with Surge Protection
Electrical surges can cause issues for your home ranging from mild inconveniences to thousands of dollars of damage, depending on their severity and other factors. We want to protect you from those issues, and our whole home surge protector installation services in Castle Rock, CO, will result in us doing just that.
What Is a Power Surge?
Normally, the electricity that is provided to your plugged-in devices and your Colorado home as a whole is pretty steady, and your power lines can more than handle it. However, there are instances in which they instead become overloaded by voltage and current, which results in a power surge.
A potential cause of this is a lightning strike as one hitting a nearby transmission tower or electrical line can cause surges for you and your neighbors. Others include downed power lines for any reason, such as high wind or a car accident, damaged wiring and an overloading of the public grid, the latter of which is more common in the summer. In addition, the electricity coming back on after a blackout can result in a power surge.
Also note that, while unlikely, these sudden surges of power could cause wires inside your home to overheat and catch fire.
Minor Power Surges
Although much of the focus for homeowners is on major events, such as lightning strikes, numerous minor power surges are likely occurring that should also be protected against. These accumulate over time and oftentimes result in damaged appliances and other major issues in your home, and it may be difficult for you to discern what happened.
These minor surges tend to be internally caused, such as through the cycling on and off of your air conditioner, malfunctioning appliances and loose wires. Regardless of their causes, surge protection power strips can help protect against those instances but only for the devices that are plugged into them. Conversely, a home surge protector protects your entire house against these hidden dangers.
Also, those spike strips will not provide effective protection against something like a nearby lightning strike, even for what has been plugged into them, since those strips have only been designed to handle minor power surges.
What Is a Power Surge?
Home surge protector installation will help protect you against the unexpected, such as a lightning strike from one of those storms that Colorado is known for. That means that your refrigerator, laptop and everything else that is powered by electricity will be protected, and your worries about your devices being destroyed in an instant will be minimized.
This is done through a process that is similar to what pressure release valves do. Once a surge of power is detected, your home surge protector will redirect that excess energy, either by sending it to a ground wire or rejecting it.
How Powerful is a Home Surge Protector?
How powerful your home surge protector will be depends on its individual strength. Generally, they can protect against a surge of up to 20-40,000 amps while most lightning strikes cause surges of up to 20,000 amps, rarely more than 40,000. That means that you will be protected against all but the most extreme circumstances.
AJC Electric Can Safeguard Your Home
If you decide to take advantage of our services, we will work hard to safeguard your home from power surges as well as other potential issues. Our highly trained specialists pride ourselves on being the standard of efficiency and reliability in Castle Rock and its surrounding area and are looking forward to providing that same level of service to you.
Reach out to AJC Electric today to get your home surge protector installation scheduled or if you have any questions about it or any of our other home and business services.
