Your Sacramento, CA home can have a surge protector installed by our electricians at Huft Home Services. Instead of using power strips with surge protection for a few of your most important electronic devices, you can protect everything electrical in your home at once with whole house surge protection. When electrical surges come down your power line from disturbances elsewhere on the power grid, everything plugged into outlets or wired into your circuits will be covered. From your expensive electronics to appliances with electronic controls, even fan motors and air conditioning compressors will all receive the benefit of your surge protector.
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Expert Whole House Surge Protection in Sacramento
Power surges can cause incremental damage to delicate electronics, leading to failure over time. They can also immediately damage your computer, home theater equipment, gaming system, or microwave oven. Motors and control circuits can be damaged, resulting in damage to refrigerators and washing machines, also some types of water heaters plus heating and cooling equipment. Whole house surge protection covers them all.
Installed at your main power panel, this kind of power surge protector diverts surges from outside and often inside the home, power spikes induced by system disruptions, load variations, and other effects. Professionally installed, this device covers the circuits in your power panel to provide protection directly. It doesn’t require resetting as power strips often do, but silently provides whole house surge protection for your Sacramento home.
Most electrical devices are vulnerable to power surges, some more than others including:
- Gaming systems and personal electronics
- Expensive computer, networking, and home theater equipment
- Appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, and microwave ovens
- HVAC, water heaters and other electrical equipment
- Wired security and smart home devices including video doorbells
Whole house surge protectors help to stabilize the power supply for all your electrical equipment, a real necessity for the broad range of equipment that modern homes contain. Serious surges can also cause wiring and fixture damage, along with heat-related damage that can render damaged electronics unrepairable.
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Our trusted electricians at Huft Home Services provide expert surge protector installation in your home’s power panel, a fast and complete solution to the risks of surge damage throughout your home. Whole house surge protection not only protects individual devices, it also helps avoid an outcome that has affected institutions as well as homes, where a large collection of equipment has to be replaced because of the damage inflicted by a single power surge.
Frequently Asked Questions
Surge protection is a system designed to protect your electrical devices and home from voltage spikes or power surges. These surges can damage sensitive electronics, appliances, and even cause electrical fires.
Power surges can be caused by lightning strikes, utility grid switching, large appliances cycling on and off, or issues with wiring. They can also occur when power is restored after an outage.
A whole-house surge protector is installed at your main electrical panel and diverts excess voltage from surges away from your home’s wiring, protecting all connected devices and appliances.
The cost of installing whole-house surge protection varies depending on the size of your home and the complexity of the installation. After a thorough inspection and diagnosis, our electricians will provide an upfront cost with no hidden fees.
While surge protectors can help reduce the risk of damage from lightning strikes, they cannot provide 100% protection from a direct hit. However, they are highly effective at protecting against most electrical surges.
Yes, it’s recommended to use point-of-use surge protectors for sensitive electronics such as computers and home entertainment systems for an added layer of protection.
Yes, power surges can cause significant damage to appliances and electronics, including shortening their lifespan or causing them to fail completely.
Whole-house surge protectors should be inspected and possibly replaced every 3 to 5 years, or after a major surge event. Point-of-use surge protectors may need replacing sooner if they’ve absorbed a large surge.
While surge protection doesn’t directly reduce energy consumption, it helps protect your devices from damage, potentially saving you money on costly repairs or replacements.
In most cases, no permit is required for installing surge protection devices. However, if the installation involves changes to your electrical panel, a permit may be necessary. We can assist with the permit process if required.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment for surge protection, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
If you’re aware of the risk of power surge damage to your equipment but didn’t realize you could protect your whole Sacramento home at once, we have good news. Give us a call to find out about whole house surge protection.
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