What are electrical surges?
Surges and transients are momenentary spikes in electrical voltage.  These surges and transients can enter a home or business through the incoming electrical line, telephone line, cable antenna. even the internet line.

Where do they come from?
At one extreme, a surge can be generated by a nearby lightning strike. At the other, transients can come from the motors in your appliances when they turn on and off during everyday operation. Harmful surges are also produced by electric utility power switching designed to meet changing energy demands.

What can they do?
While a lightning strike can cause immediate and severe damage, low level surges will, over time, degrade electronic equipment and shorten the life of computers, home entertainment systems, telecommunication devices, and electric appliances.

What can I do?
You can protect the investment in all of your electronic devices with a family of surge protectors. While surge strips protect one or two electronic devices, there are many products that can protect all the connections in a home or business - and this is what  Sunbelt Electric  recommends.

How do surge protectors work?
Once in place and connected to your loadcenter, or data equipment, the surge protectors redirect the surges to ground and dissipate the energy. The surge protection selected must be UL rated on response time (where lower clamping voltage is better) and surge rating (where the greater the surge current rating, the longer the surge protector will last).  

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