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School me on surge suppression/power conditioning
Long time lurker off and on, new member.
I moved to a rural area in north idaho that sees some surges(flickering lights) now and then plus some quick outages that last a few seconds to minutes to hours to days. Our area has all underground power and we have the big green transformer 350 feet away from our house down the driveway. Meter is outside the house on a pole that feeds 3 separate buildings. Our pump house, the stand alone garage, house.
Before i install my old school deftech powered towers and center along with my parasound hca1205 and Yamaha 3080 reciever id like to do some things to prevent damage to this equipment. I dont have a lot of money, and it IS a triple wide MH. So no room left in the inside breaker panel with it full of tandems and quads already. Thinking number #1 is a panel mounted surge suppression at the outside meter/mains shut-off to the 3 buildings. Im comfortable inside a breaker panel unless its pulling the meter. Each building also has its own breaker panel with main lug panel but too are also full since they chose the smallest panels.
Ive been reading, and definitely overwhelmed and confused. Ive got maybe a $500 budget for now. Just had to replace my heatpump ($6k)and have backup heat(woodstove $10k) installed so im kinda tapped for a few months.
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You absolutely should, but for sensitive devices a protector at the outlet is important. The panel / meter mounted protectors have relatively high let through/clamping voltages by comparison |
@erik_squires . Yeah. I did purchase 2 different surgeX products for my reciever and sub/powered towers and center. Unfortunately i dont have the power available in my home to install my parasound amp so i dont have to worry about that until i win the lottery and can afford to hire an electrician to install a bigger panel |
Self sacrificing upon strike and located away/outside of panel in case of fire. https://ep2000.com/products/home-protection-products/premium-surge-protection-filter/?v=e75edac1b83f Hope you find what you are looking for. Cheers |
The Siemens or Eaton (cheaper) whole house, but it takes up two breaker slots as I recall. Then point of use, like the SurgeX which you have. Electricity is agnostic. If you are concerned about surge protection only. I'm not a fan of "power conditioners" anyway- they all affect the sound-the question is always whether it seems like an improvement. You don't need to throw crazy money at this, given what you have. But I don't know whether you can DIY under code in your location. That is something you should check. I always use an electrician, but that's me. Good luck, PS: there is a famous old "millionaires" trailer park that sits right on the lake in downtown Austin, old hippies, used to be cheap, and some folks have cool Airstreams and other retro MH/trailers/whatever. I could see that if you can handle a confined living space. |
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