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Originally Posted by villagetinker
We have one , there was a close in lightning strike just outside a neighbors backyard, maybe 100 feet from our house. Neighbor have several thousand dollars in damaged electrical equipment, we had nothing apparent. About 18 months later cable tv was getting real bad, the service drop cable to our house had failed apparently due to the strike. This would not have been prevented by the SECO device, but everything else in the house survived.
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My father-in-law had a similar experience. He had a Duke Energy surge protector and he said lightning hit so close to his house that it shook. The strike knocked out an older t.v. and a cable box, nothing else was affected. When we called he found out that he only had the basic coverage (for $8 a month) that doesn’t include more sensitive electronics like t.v.’s and computers. But they offer, a move expensive, plan to cover them. His t.v. was replaced for $200 and the cable company changed out his cable box. We think the surge protector saved the major appliances and now have the wall plug in surge protectors at the t.v.’s.
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