An electrical surge could damage anything in your home that is plugged into an outlet. Right now, you may use power strips in your home to protect against surges, but these are not as effective as whole-house surge protection, and any protection they offer is limited to the individual power strip. Count on the residential electricians at Jett Electric to safeguard your Salt Lake City home with whole-house surge protection.

Your electricity comes into your home from the outside, through a thick wire that enters your electrical panel. Inside your electrical panel, smaller wires run to power different circuits throughout your home. If you have ever tripped a circuit, you know you have to go down to the basement to open the box and flip the circuit breaker back on.

If you routinely trip circuits in your home when using a blow dryer, iron, vacuum or other appliance, you should have a Salt Lake City residential electrician to come in and see why. Your electrical panel may need updating.

A whole-house surge protector is a device that our electrical contractors hook up to your electrical panel. We install a new circuit breaker that connects to the surge protector, and the surge protector has a grounding wire through which it sends any extra unnecessary electricity. The surge protector monitors the level of electricity coming into your house and adjusts it safely.

However, over time, whole-house surge protectors become less effective. The whole-house surge protectors our electricians install in Salt Lake City homes come with green LED lights to show they are working. Once that light goes out, you will need a new whole-home surge protector. You can expect your whole-home surge protector to last five-10 years, depending on how hard it has to work.

The average power strip sold in big-box stores is nothing but an extension of your electrical outlet. For years, homeowners used extension cords, which are a fire hazard when used improperly. Power strips reduce that risk, but they offer no protection against power surges.

Some power strips do offer protection against surges, but this protection is much lower than the protection you get from a whole-home surge protector.

If you have computers, printers, scanners or sensitive and expensive stereo equipment, you will want a whole-house surge protector at your Salt Lake City home. A lightning strike is powerful enough to fry the appliances in your home as well, including the refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, washer and dryer, and anything else that’s plugged in. A whole-home surge protector can safeguard against this kind of damage, where an ordinary surge protector never could.

Depend on the electrical contractors at Jett Electric for whole-house surge protector installation.