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The milliamp currents (detected by a RCD or GFCI) does not start fires. An RCD is for human safety; to detect a ground fault. Another type circuit breaker (called AFCI) will detect arcing that might cause house fires. But none of that is relevant here for a few reasons. One is that circuit...

Define a difference between the seven dollar protector sold in a grocery store and a $150 Monster? Equivalent circuits. Similar specs. And both do not claim to protect from any typically destructive surge. Monster has a long history of identifying scams. Then selling similar products for...

Relevant are many fundamental electrical concepts that some do not know. I cannot possibly post every concept. Was that post not already too long? An obvious reply is to ask questions. With basic electrical concepts, everything should have been obvious. Which parts are unknown to you? Ask and...

Somebody is feeding on ********. Any protector that fails after a surge is a complete scam. Protectors, grossly undersized to fail on surges too small to cause appliance damage, are therefore recommended by a majority. Protedtor failure gets the naive to recommend it. Effective protection...

Why did you ignore what was posted? Where is the 'less than 10 foot' connection from that protector to earth? It is layering when, well, what defines each layer? Earth ground. What happens when a protector does not make that short connection to earth? It does not protect from typically...

Why would a surge cause damage? Lightning strikes AC electric wires down the street. That is a direct lightning strike to all household appliances. But to have damage, the surge current must first have both an incoming path and an outgoing path to earth. If you let a surge into the...

National codes still apply. Only reason why your home need not meet current codes - grandfathering. Any changes would require upgrading to new codes. But since earthing is also important to appliance protection, then simple and inexpensive earthing upgrade (ie two ten foot ground rods) is...

Water pipe ground is no longer sufficient for earth ground since about 1990 code. Whereas the water pipe can be used for earthing, it must also be supplemented by any other defined earth ground that is always sufficient. The most common solution are ten foot copper coated ground rods just...

The main panel is not earth ground. Earth ground is the electrode that the main panel also must connect to. Effective protection: no sharp wire bends from the telco NID to earth ground. Each ground wire is separate until all meet at that earthing electrode. No splices. No ground wire...

The electric company is only responsible for service up to their meter. In some locations, they are not even responsible for the drop to that meter. You are responsible for everything after the meter. If you do not personally fix it, then your - not the electric company - hires and pays for...

Nothing in-line is earthed - therefore ineffective. Your telco already installed sufficient protection (inside an NID – not NIB) making your in-line protector even more useless. Nobody else installs earth ground. You and only you are responsible for providing that ground. Only you can...

I have no idea what to rephrase. Its already so simple. If you have not yet disposed of many myths that plug-in proptectors promote, then you might be confused. I cannot rephrase when I do not know which myth or misconception has confused you. It is called electricity. A destructive...

So read one paragraph. Do nothing else. Then post questions here. Only when you grasp that one paragraph, then move on. For example, only read this paragraph: Now, what confuses you?

We were discussing both. I mistakenly thought you were discussing the earthing electrode. An air terminal must be sufficiently sized so that heat at the ‘air to metal’ interface does not cause damage. Ineffective air terminals - Early Streamer Emission (ESE) devices - have a history of...

Surge current enters on a phone line? Ignores the 'whole house' protector and earth ground? Then does not ignore earth ground later via a computer? Hardly. Many do not even know that all phone lines already have 'whole house' protectors installed for free. With earthing that only the home...

Aluminum is not acceptable for earthing for a long list of reasons including one that everyone should know. Aluminum electrode violates the code. Posted repeatedly was a reference to 'single point earth ground'. Grounding at many points only makes surge damage more likely. Every incoming...

You assumptions are not based in well proven science. For example, sides of mountains are more often struck than the tops. Mountain sides make a better conductive path from cloud to earthborne charges. A FL home was repeatedly struck on an exterior bathroom wall. So they installed...

So how does that APC stop what three miles of sky could not stop? How does that APC's hundred of joules absorb surges that are hundreds of thousands of joules? In advertising, APC is a complete protection solution. Therefore it must stop or absorb surges. How does it make all that energy...

Spec will list two numbers. Operating temperature and storage temperature. Operating temperature is necessary so that it works right. Many mistakenly believe that an out of spec temperature means damage. No, that temperature means less than optimum operation - with no damage. Storage...

Damage was not random. What does a surge seek? Earth ground. Everything had an incoming surge path. But only some items connected that surge destructively to earth. Plug-in surge protectors even give surges more paths to find earth, destructively, via appliances. Those plug-in protectors...