Roswell, GA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/26/2011 -- Speedy Electric is based in Roswell, Georgia. They are a professional electrical installation and repair company with 25 years of experience to back them up. Speedy Electrics skilled electricians have gone through years of training and professionalism to give the very best quality to the industry. According to Speedy Electric, they have a wide spread radius of service and among them is the service of providing surge protection for home and business.
Sources say that power surges occur when factors like adverse weather conditions and external accidental contact with power lines and cause power outages. This occurrence causes the brief voltage fluctuation, typically swaying from 500 to 1000 volts. Since most components have a 120 volt limit, an overload matures and can then the brief surge becomes enough to damage or even destroy the delicate parts of the electrical device.
Surge power protection is now gaining in popularity among local home owners. Speedy electric has a therefore extended their service to professionally install the two levels of surge protection defenses: one level for the major surges and a second level for minor threats.
The first level of defense that is for the major surges an establishment can possibly engage in. It entails surge suppression at the main service panel.
The main service panel is the suppressor that takes on electrical disturbances that come from the utility supply. It cuts down the surge so that downstream, the equipment’s point-of-use surge suppressors can eliminate any leftover surge. For this reason, every home should have a licensed electrician, like Speedy Electric, install a main service panel suppressor, preferably on with a built in visible alarm to signal when the device has suffered any damage caused by a surge.
The next step on the list after securing the source is to secure the destination. This is the surge suppression at point-of-use.
Point-of-use suppressor devices are found connected to wall outlets nearest the location the equipment is being protected and used. Suppressors take many forms such as the form of power bars, receptacle-mounted or plug-in types, and hard-wired receptacles with built-in suppression. What is important is their validity which is indicated by a certified CSA or CUL and UL 1449 tagged on them. These suppressors handle a minimum of 120 Joules or 0.12 kilowatt-second without burning out when they cross each of the following: neutral to ground, neutral to line, and line to ground. Again, it is best to have a suppressor with a warning signal, either a visual or audible alarm, to indicate if the suppressor suffers any damage. The more damage it has, the less effective it is.