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Originally Posted by JWGifford
Makes perfect sense, thanks. As you know, risk is the product of severity and likelihood. I think most people can agree on the severity aspect (e.g., blowing up all your expensive electronics), but it’s the likelihood that gives me pause. I’ve owned a number of houses in my lifetime and never had a whole house surge protector and never needed one. Perhaps I lived in areas that had less lightening activity than TV or had more reliable electric service. I’m curious how many people suffer large losses due to electric surges per year in TV. Has to be quite small. As with everything, it all depends on one’s risk tolerance levels.
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Note that the surge protector does not really offer lightning protection. It can only provide limited protection from lightning and only if the lightning enters the house through the incoming power line.