Residential Surge Protection

Your Home is Your Castle - Protect It!

External Surges

Electrical Surges come in two different types: external and internal.  External Sources, such as lightning strikes and transformer failures, are well known for their catastrophic effect on the electrical equipment in your home.  A lightning strike near your residence or business can easily send over a million volts to your expensive electrical equipment—equipment designed to run on only 120 Volts!  Catastrophic surges can also result from non-weather related events.  Power lines knocked down from car accidents, transformers exploding, and the switching of power sources from the electric company are everyday phenomenon that can wreak havoc on air conditioners, refrigerators, computers, and expensive home entertainment equipment.

Internal Surges

Who hasn’t seen lights flicker when air conditioning units kick on?  The same can be common when a washing machine is started, the refrigerator cycles on, or the vacuum is in use.  These are all causes of internal surges.  While internal surges are rarely catastrophic, they can severely shorten the life of electrical equipment.  With every surge, motors run momentarily faster and hotter than designed, losing electrical efficiency, generating more heat, and ultimately failing prematurely.  Computer hard-drives, and computer memory can develop errors, causing the need for more frequent re-boots, and also premature failures.

FMSI Solutions

Fortunately, it is very easy to protect your home or business! FMSI offers commercial-grade surge protection for the residential/light commercial market.  Our state-of-the-art solutions feature the lowest and fastest clamping times available in the marketplace today. In fact, our units are fast enough to react to an incoming surge, route the surge away from your electrical system, and reset for the next surge faster than our competition simply reacts.  Our TVSS units stop dangerous surges, both internal and catastrophic external, from causing damage to your expensive home electrical appliances. 

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