EZ Battery Reconditioning Review

Lightning induced surges are the most powerful and the most damaging, but the fact is most surge-related damage is not caused by lightning. Far more frequent are surges caused by power company generated surges, downed power lines, air conditioners, motors and other high current electrical devices within the home. The damage inflicted minor power fluctuations may not show up for sometime, but each time an appliance takes one of these small hits it is shortening the life of the unit. One day the unit just stops working! Power surges can also enter the home via telephone, DSL and cable lines.

To guard against surges, protection should follow a two-pronged approach, a whole-house surge suppressor to tame the large power spikes and a power strip style surge suppressor to catch the smaller AC spikes that get through the whole house unit, for sensitive electronic devices and computers. During normal use a surge suppressor allows electricity to flow through them, but when the line voltage exceeds the surge suppressors rated clamping voltage the excess voltage is diverted to ground, usually within fractions of a millisecond.