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Originally Posted by sounding
Not really -- you'd be amazed at how many people keep asking about lightning rods, etc ... at presentations throughout the villages.
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This is what most don't realize. There are an incredible number of people here in the Villages that still are not aware of lighting and surge protection. The Villages Lightning Study group has given over 200 presentations since it started many years ago and this year we keep getting requests for presentations eventhough we have done a lot this year already.
But his thread is focused on the effectiveness of Type-1 and Type-2 surge protection. There has been a lot of discusion on if you really need both. Where I used to live in NY there was no Type-1 meter surge protector available so we all just had the Eaton Ultra and that protected our homes but we were not in a lightning prone area like we are here in Central Florida. Without more data, it's not possible to say you only need one or the other or both. All I know is now when I give my presentation I ask the audience who has the Type-1 meter surge arrester only and has had damage and I always get people raising their hands. Not so much if they had the Type-2 protector as well. I always say to get both to get the best protection since the more layers of protection the better.