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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 230134" data-attributes="member: 13196">I have not used it but am interested in reading what others think.Since you mentioned the possibility of a lightning strike, our electrician once suggested having a surge protector installed at the electrical box. That way, any surges coming in from outside will get stopped. We still use surge protectors inside the house in case anything from inside creates a surge. I thought we were covered until one day during a thunderstorm, there was a snap and an instanteous bright white light (2'-3' in diameter) that exploded just a few feet from where I am sitting in the house. It happened a second time, too, during a different storm. Turns out the ground to our phone lines wasn't working so we had that fixed. It messed up the electrical wires in the outside phone box, but nothing in the house was affected. Fortunately once that was repaired, we haven't experienced any further problems from surges. If you don't have a surge protector at your electrical box, you might want to look into it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="hark, post: 230134, member: 13196"] I have not used it but am interested in reading what others think. Since you mentioned the possibility of a lightning strike, our electrician once suggested having a surge protector installed at the electrical box. That way, any surges coming in from outside will get stopped. We still use surge protectors inside the house in case anything from inside creates a surge. I thought we were covered until one day during a thunderstorm, there was a [I]snap[/I] and an instanteous bright white light (2'-3' in diameter) that exploded just a few feet from where I am sitting in the house. It happened a second time, too, during a different storm. Turns out the ground to our phone lines wasn't working so we had that fixed. It messed up the electrical wires in the outside phone box, but nothing in the house was affected. Fortunately once that was repaired, we haven't experienced any further problems from surges. If you don't have a surge protector at your electrical box, you might want to look into it. ;) [/QUOTE]

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