Surge Protector for Computer and TV

Surge Protector for Computer and TV A storm is raging, caution is advised. So, a Viennese company lost PC with all data after a storm with lightning strike one blow 20. "A lightning strike can cause an overvoltage in the mains over above ground laid telephone or power lines and paralyse hardware up to the total damage", Nicolas Ehrschwendner, Chief of data rescue company Attingo stressed. However, PC, TV and co. can be effectively protected. We give the most important tips for lightning protection.

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Even our parents knew the simplest and most effective protection when they moved the power and antenna connector of the TV from the wall during lightning storms. The enormous energy of a lightning finds its way into an electrical appliance over any type of cable and network. So the TV, the radio or the valuable PC at the time of impact with no network is connected, then anything can happen.

Unless the lightning strikes directly into the unit or the building, so that it comes to "Jump discharge". You can't protect against such a hit itself but anyway. The tip is "Plug out" with no technology to replace. But what if no one is at home, to pull the plug? In such cases, there is the "technical lightning protection".

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External and internal lightning protection

For lightning protection, one distinguishes two types of measures. Everything that is intended to prevent that overturns a Flash in the Interior of a building one or better among the external lightning protection. These include, for example, the classic lightning conductor and grounding cable. Such Hedges are generally in this country.

The internal lightning protection aims to protect individual components and devices in the House against the effects of lightning. Times, there are safeguards in the current distribution of the building, even locally, where a device such as a PC or TV set "in the wall."

Surge protection the electrical Installer

Internal protection is to incorporate a properly designed surge protector into the central power distribution. The electronics retailers offers components for mounting on the so-called "rail", sit on the all backups. The installation should take a skilled electrician. Who knows what capacity the protection has to offer for the affected household.

As an apartment house, for example, a different protection as a small single apartment. This central overvoltage protection also called "Protection".

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Actions you take directly on the device, fall under the "protection". This is so safety devices that protect the individual device from damage due to overvoltage.

Cheap lightning protection device does not help

Discount store, hardware store or eBay: everywhere are advertised lightning protection connector or connectors to provide maximum protection against lightning for little money. However, these simple devices from approximately 20 euros offer at best overvoltage protection against power fluctuations and voltage peaks in the 220-volt supply. They do not help but against the enormous energy of a lightning bolt by an average 20,000 amps. The low-cost protection plugs are designed only for up to 6000 amps.

Pay attention to the protection values

Better protection plugs and connectors can fend off currents of up to 120,000 amps, costs but from €100 upwards. Also, these connectors are usually in addition equipped with plug for antenna, telephone and DSL lines. Thus they insert in these data cables and secure these transmission routes.

Hardly a chance for direct lightning strikes

All of these internal protections help indirect lightning strikes. This means that lightning strikes in the wider area or somewhere in the power grid. You get a direct hit, but hits the Flash directly in the House or in the immediate vicinity, losses are almost inevitable. The protection measures taken contribute only to limit the damage.

Read the small print in insurance

"If it crashes then I Yes insurance." So many think and remember dark, that in the household insurance some protection of the Flash. Often enough, a pure "Blitzschlagversicher covers

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