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The traditional surge protector on the right can cause a lot of harm endangering
your electronic equipment, possibly setting a fire to your home or business. MOV's wear out with use. You can
buy it for a few dollars and take the risk. Isn't it
worth spending a few extra
dollars to protect your
expensive computer, Plasma
TV, LCD flat panel TV, expensive HDTV, TiVo, Home theater, or satellite receivers?
the Zero Surge
technology
removes the power line noise that can degrade audio/video signals.
POINT OF
USE, TRADITIONAL SURGE PROTECTORS, SHUNT THE SURGE TO GROUND AT
THE COMPUTER, WHERE IT LEAPS ACROSS SERIAL
PORTS, NETWORK
CONNECTIONS, ETC. DOING ITS DEADLY
WORK.
Interconnected (networked) systems share common power and data lines form circuits between themselves via the ground wire (both
referenced at the load). A power line surge diverted to the ground wire will make its way to the chassis, through the motherboard onto and through the data
lines because the power line ground is used as a voltage reference and therefore is also connected at the motherboard and to the data ports of the rest of
the connected system. This is where most data line surges originate.
Are you using a UPS
Unit?
It is our contention that you should have a series mode surge
protector, such as a Zero Surge unit, in front of your UPS unit?
This is so that the MOV in the UPS unit won’t pollute the equipment
ground and so the MOV won’t dump a lightning strike or other destructive
spike onto the equipment ground where it can blow up other equipment whose
signal wiring may be connected to the equipment ground.
Problems when
you are using standby generators and your MOV type suppressors:
Standby generators used in critical applications
can experience brief voltage overshoot during start up, load changes,
and with contaminated fuel. Voltage
overshoot will stress fixed clamping level (MOV Type) suppressors,
leading to premature and unpredictable failure.
Zero
Surge filters use Spectrum Wide Voltage Range Technology effectively
functions from 85 volts all the way to 265 volts and anywhere in
between.
Take
a look at the fire dangers of MOV type surge protectors: Is
it worth the risk to use MOV point of use surge protectors?
Two families on Bainbridge Island [in Puget Sound]
lost their homes due to fires caused by Multiple Outlet Power Surge
Suppressors during the one year ending Feb 1995. See
information posted by the Bellingham, Washington fire department.
Surge suppressor that "started a small
fire" at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, U.S. Department of
Energy's facility at Hanford 28 Aug 1999.
See Lessons Learned.
In January 2003, an employee of the Greensport Yard
in Houston arrived at work to find the office full of smoke from a
burning surge suppressor, with a second surge suppressor of the same
model hot and ready to burn. Click on University,
Organ State Fire
Marshal
warns of fire dangers of MOV's. "As more surges are diverted, the
MOVs life span shortens, and failure becomes imminent. There is no
forewarning or visual indications given - just failure. And while
failing, they can reach very high temperatures, and actually start
fires."
Don't
get caught
dead over
using MOV type point of use surge protectors. Story about death of two
people from MOV surge protector causing a fire. See
Fire
Hazards
of Surge Suppressors by Ronald B. Standler
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