Surge protection for SF Line 3

fuelie - the excess energy is converted [to] a small amount of heat? A surge of 6000 volts? Or lightening strike of much more? To a "small" amount of heat?

whats better (in regard to protection AND neutralility) -- a whole house solution (at the breaker box) or the at outlet units (such as Hydra, RGP, etc)???

Rockadanny - That is correct. The surge goes through a large inductor coil to clamp the surge, the remainder is stored in capacitors and then "worked to death" internally. No surge energy leaves the box on either the ground or the neutral wire. I've seen a video demonstration that SurgeX does all the time at trade shows using a high power surge generator. The MOVs blow up while the SurgeX device also plugged into the surge generator just sits there fat, dumb, and happy, absorbing the energy and dissipating it as a small amount of heat inside the box demonstration after demonstration, day after day.

Also, I was mistaken myself saying that ZeroSurge, BrickWall, and TorusPower are licensees of SurgeX. ONLY ZeroSurge is a licensee which then makes re-branded BrickWalls, and sells series-mode modules to TorusPower