[TowerTalk] Question re: Whole House Surge Protection

[Joe]

Sorry to hear of your loss.  I'm trying to prevent that happening, and have 
just done all the lightning stuff by the book, and am now having the local 
cooperative power company install a whole house protector.  We get some 
doozies of a thunderstorm/lightning here in this part (southwest) of 
Colorado each summer.

Interesting that they won't install it - perhaps the benefit of being in 
the boonies here in Colorado is that our coop power company will install 
it, and then give you 24 months to pay the $115, no interest.  But we have 
no choice in the device, which has its plusses too - if it doesn't work, 
they specified and installed it.

Good luck and 73,

Joe
WDØM

At 03:12 PM 7/21/2004, Eric Rosenberg wrote:
>My neighborhood was zapped on July 4th. An indirect hit caused a
>powerline surge at our house that nailed my Omni-6+ and other devices
>(wireless phone, answering machine, home alarm control panel, computer).
>  Oddly, while our hit came trhough the AC line, my neighbor was hit
>through his cable connection (our TVs were not hit).
>
>Many have suggested we install a whole-house surge protector.  The local
>power company (Pepco) will sell me one through their subsidiary, Pepco
>Energy Services), but will not install it.
>
>My question:  since I'll have to pay for the device and installation, is
>one better than another?
>
>Pepco Energy Services sells the EFI Electronics Titan 40W40W
>(www.efinet.comm)
>
>Polyphaser (www.polyphaser.com) and Joslyn
>(http://www.jesc.com/joslynsurge/products/index.html) have products, too,
>as do others.
>
>Can anyone recommend one over the other?
>
>I really don't want to do through this again!
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Eric W3DQ
>Washington, DC