Trusting The Sycom Surge Protector
Today's electronics are smaller and sensitive to over voltages in most situations and in your home there are power surges daily. Most people believe that surges are only caused by lightning striking your house, but they are also created by appliances within your home turning on and off. Installing a surge protector can prevent these surges from crippling your electronic appliances and costing you a lot in repairs. In the worst case scenario but all too often folks find themselves having to replace their electronics from permanently damaged hardware. It doesn't have to be an expensive investment and with an inexpensive Sycom surge protector you know you are getting solid protection for your equipment.
Sycom is best known for their industrial surge protectors used to safeguard entire facilities with one device, but about a decade ago they turned to the residential market to offer everyday people the chance to protect home appliances. They specialize in whole house surge protection where the surge protection device is installed on the meter where your power company lines enter your house or you can put it on the inside between your circuit breaker and your internal power flow.
Sycom does more than just whole house protection though. They are capable of creating custom surge protectors for your home and have a line of simple and inexpensive, but heavy duty protection for individual appliances. Sometimes it's better to use point-of-use protection in conjunction of whole house units as a secondary line of defense. Whole house surge protectors stop external surges from bombarding your home but several surges are created daily inside your home.
Turning on large appliances like a washer or a microwave draws power towards it to start up. This startup energy can pool and create a surge that will then need somewhere to go once the appliance is running. It will find the nearest outlet and enter whatever is plugged into it. If that whatever happens to be a electronic device like a computer or something with sensitive electronics within it you run the risk of the surge destroying the equipment.
Other appliances that cause internal surges are HVAC equipment, wall A/C units, refrigerators and other large appliances. A Sycom surge protector for refrigerator units, for example, is the best way to thwart any threat of a surge before it starts. The protection device simply absorbs the surge and allows the excess energy to dissipate harmlessly away. It's not a power strip. Power cords and strips don't offer surge protection. You need a device specially built for surge protection.