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Installing the Whole House Electrical Surge Protector and Arc Detector

Barry Driscoll is in the basement installing a state-of-the-art surge protector from Square D. Barry hooks up a main surge protector for the whole house that will take care of all the appliances, electronics, and anything else that could be damaged. It also protects the telephones and cable TV that run throughout the house. This eliminates the need for individual surge protectors on separate appliances. This can be installed in a retrofit as well as in new construction. Barry is also installing an arc fault detector. These units that are now required by the new national electrical code for branch circuits in bedrooms protect against fires from arcing caused by damaged wires (if you hit a wire while hanging a picture), deteriorating electrical insulation, stressed electrical cords, or misapplied or damaged appliance use. The arc detector was designed to detect overloads, short circuits and arc faults and open the circuit and stop the arc fault and its high intensity heat before a fire is likely to ignite.

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" All right so very that that the big things that homeowners with as much electronics as we have here have to worry about. Art surge protection right that's right and what are you doing there when you hooking up. "

" I'm hooking up a main surge suppressor for the whole house --"

" Take care of all our appliances -- TVs are stereo equipment. Than anything else that we'd be worried about damaging it's also gonna protect our telephones and our cable TV which run throughout the house wow so."

" This means anything plugged in anywhere in the house. You don't have to have an individual surge protector at that point -- use as a war. That's correct this'll be the whole entire house and is this of the you can only put in new construction or can you retrofit it you could retrofit and you could put this in any application. There it is green light who makes now we've -- by square DOK now what about arc detect that's one thing we're gonna be hooking up right now this wire goes up to a bedroom. And these which are going to be. Required in the new code. -- an arc fault detector that's gonna protect anything in our bedrooms. -- your child plugging anything into an outlet that he's not supposed to do while the connector. Make sure that if a kid sticks a key into receptacles we can't get shocked correct or if you hang a picture and you hit a wire. Anything that would cause a problem with your wiring will shut that right down and make sure it's safe to this and a lot of expense."

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