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Whole House Surge Protection
Install basic Whole House Surge Protection (electrical surge protection) to help protect the expensive electronics throughout your home or business in Plano, Texas. Adding this residential electrical surge protection device to your electrical service panel will reduce harmful surges before they reach your sensitive appliances and electronic equipment.
A power surge occurs when the power line voltage surpasses nominal levels and remains high longer than 10 milliseconds. These spikes are most often caused by your power provider, electrical problems inside your home, or lightning strikes.
Electronics are increasingly more sophisticated, utilizing technology that was not widely used even five years ago. Furnaces, clothes washers & dryers, refrigerators and A/C units along with smaller electronics such as televisions, stereos, microwaves, computers, and telephone systems are damaged by even small voltage changes. Damage from small surges can add up over time and may eventually shorten the life of your equipment or even destroy it.
A power surge can damage your equipment even if you are not using it; many devices have electronic timers, clocks, or remote controls which remain in operation even when it is not in use. Also, some appliances cycle off and on at random like air conditioners, water heaters, pumps, or refrigerators and they could be on during a surge.
Circuit breakers will not protect your appliances and other electronics. They are only designed to protect against over-
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Surge protectors work by regulating the flow of electricity throughout your house. When the voltage goes up, the surge protector drains all of the excess voltage into the ground and away from sensitive equipment and electronics in your home.
Whole house surge protectors are designed to protect homes against transient surges that enter through the home's service entrance, not from surges created internally in the home when motors turn on and off. In addition, they are not comparable to lightning rods; they may not survive direct lightening strikes or sustained line over-
Nisat Electric installs surge protectors that provide a manufacturer's $25,000 lifetime limited warranty for certain equipment in your home. We also provide written documentation that a licensed electrician installed your unit (a condition of the manufacturer's warranty).
Whole house surge protectors are installed in your electrical panel so they are out of your way. You should call a licensed electrician to install your whole house surge protection. The warranty provided by the whole house surge protection system's manufacturer will be void without written documentation that a licensed electrician installed your unit.
Nisat Electric is proud to maintain three different categories of electrician licenses in the State of Texas: Electrical Contractor, Master Electrician and Journeyman Electrician.
Before you hire someone to install whole house surge protection in your home or business please take a few minutes to read Reviews from Nisat Electric customers as well as electrician licensing regulations and Nisat Electric's Licensure in the State of Texas.
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