Thanks Photon. Appreciate the response.
Whole house surge protection
I'm thinking of having an electrician install one of these devices at the service entrance of my house. I get frequent thunder storms. Does anyone know what these are made of? Do they use inductors? Reason I'm asking is I do not want any device that can limit dynamics of my audio system. I've looked into ZeroSurge, SurgeX, etc that use SMP, which seem to be ideal compared to devices using MOVs. But all of these use inductors..and some who have used this type of technology have complained of dynamic restriction and collapsing of soundstage. Thanks.
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Jea, IME MOV have given me problems. I've had a strip that used MOVs and it kept tripping my circuit breaker. When I disconnected it, issue solved, but I had no way of knowing if the MOV inside the strip was damaged or still working. Read below. http://surgex.com/library/92001.html I think the whole house surge protectors are made of silicon oxide vasistors, which is suppose to be reusable over and over, unlike MOVs. http://www.deltala.com/modernsurgeprotectors.htm http://www.geindustrial.com/Newsletter/lightning_arresters_guide.pdf |
I think the whole house surge protectors are made of silicon oxide vasistors, which is suppose to be reusable over and over, unlike MOVs. Dracule1, Not sure about that. I believe most are MOV type. Eaton (Cutler Hammer), Square D, Leviton, and Siemens, use multiple MOVs. More reading material. [url]http://surgelogic.com/home/support/faqs.html[/url] . |
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