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Originally Posted by NavyVet

It was an expensive power outage for us. Lost power a little after 5 p.m. Reported it. Neighbors confirmed our whole neighborhood was out, but we did not know the cause or extent. Power came back on by 6:00. However it blew up our A/C. Called our A/C emergency after hours service and tech came right out. Said it was not a coincidence. When power is turned back on there is a huge surge of 'dirty electric.' It fried the a/c fan motor. They were able to get a replacement the next day and the tech that came back told me every single work order he had that day was for failed fan motors and all within a mile of our house. Total cost of service call and new motor $738 plus night in hotel because house was unbearably hot. Guess it could've been worse, at least it wasn't the compressor, but it stilled sucked. Thanks SECO. What the hell are we paying $5.95 a month for surge protection that obviously doesn't work???

Thanks for sharing your experience but it raises the obvious question, “Have you called or filed a claim with SECO, and what was their response?” One of my relatives said he called SECO and the service rep confirmed that you have $5K insurance for damages from power surges. However, collecting may not be as easy as it sounds. They may want a professional certification that you couldn’t possibly get before they repaired your AC. Just curious.