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Originally Posted by jkomoros

Since central Florida gets so many lightning strikes, we were thinking of buying this system, but wondered if it's really necessary. We do, of course, have our TVs and computers on surge protection, but this is for the whole house. Anyone have any experience with this?

The previous owner of our home had a whole house surge protector put in the circuit box in the garage. It seems to work well. As an aside, we recently had our house interior painted and the painters found three receptacle covers that showed signs of a mild electrical trauma. Because of the location of those covers and the likelihood that they didn't have anything plugged into them, I'm assuming it was caused by a surge prior to the surge protector installation. I think I'd put one in.