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Originally Posted by Altavia
Understood, and good to be sceptical and get a second opinion.
However, based at least on my education and experience, and how much lightening we get here, I agree that a surge was a likely cause. The service tech probably had the same guidance from their experiences/training.
My general rule of thumb is if the cost to protect was more than 10% of the cost to replace, I'd probably not go for it.
Maybe higher if it risks going without air conditioning in August  |
We will never know for sure but the company the tech worked for has probably seen and above average amount of failures and some may have been from an induced power surge which is why he brought it up. He probably should have told the homeowner to get a whole house surge procector like the Eaton Ultra and pointed him to an electrical contractor like Pikes or Lenhardt. Putting a surge protector on the air handler will only protect that one device while the whole house surge protector would protect everything.