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Originally Posted by villagetinker
There was a close in lighting strike, hit to the rear of the lot next door. This was so close you saw it, heard it, felt it all at the same instant. House next door suffered several thousand dollars in damages, we had no apparent damage, about 18 months later the cable was having lots of trouble, they found the drop cable to our house was bad probably from the lightning strike. My point, the surge from the close in strike was apparently stopped by the SECO arrestor in the meter base. I cannot prove this and I have no idea if we would have had damage without it.
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I had one installed several years ago (a lot cheaper at the time) because after 20 service in the Navy (electronics) thought it was a good idea. Note, NOTHING covers every situation. I also have ALL our electronics in the house protected by individual surge protectors. So if we take a direct hit we'll only have to worry about the whole house burning down. Insurance covers that.