Overview of Electrical Surge

A power surge refers to any incident in which electricity exceeds the level your electronics are rated to handle. This can result due to various reasons:

  • 1. A sudden spike (any incident in which electricity exceeds the level your electronics are rated to handle) in voltage – this that can damage, degrade or destroy the sensitive electronic equipment
  • 2. When the flow of electricity is interrupted

The effects of these surges are damaging in different ways but the outcome is the same: a big bill for repair or replacement
Have you ever wondered why appliance/equipment (TV, computer, copiers etc.) fail or die on you before their life expectancy? That 'false' blink you experience with your light bulbs is actually one of several power surges playing pranks with your eyes?
Do you know that in Canada:
- The average electrical surges in a home occurs 20 times daily, that's 7,300 electrical surges/year. This means your home/office suffers electrical surges by a ratio of 455:1 (Electrical surges Vs Lightning
BUT....this is not a helpless situation if you take action immediately!

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Characteristics of Electrical Surge:

  • - Very brief, usually lasting millionths of a second.
  • -  Occurs less than lightening strikes but equally as damaging to household equipment/appliances
  • - Repeated internal power surges shorten appliance lifespan by 30%

Source of Electrical Surge/Transient:

  • There are 2 categories of culprits responsible for electrical/power surges:
  • 1. External sources such as lightning strikes and utility companies that supply electricity to homes
  • 2. Internal sources such as appliances and equipment installed in a home or office like refrigerator, HVAC, Dryer, elevator, copy machines, relays etc.

This is illustrated in the diagram below:

How does this affect you?

Let’s say you’ve made the hard decision to invest in a house, a small business, a machinery or equipment etc. These things don’t come cheap and require life savings and they’re also meant to be life safer!

You take out insurance for protection. Then more insurance……and more insurance? While insurance may provide succor post event, what happens during the claims period involving frustrating paper work, countless phone follow-ups, emails etc.? Where does this place your customers’ needs and business commitments?

Using black out and post mortem recovery approach isn’t placing your business and customers first. Being dependable, predictable and consistently availability is the core of successful businesses. This is where MCG Surge Protection comes first and ahead of the pack!

Caution! This is not a power strip and the objective is not to cheapen your sensitive and expensive  equipment with disposable hardware.

There’s no competition out there that beats its chest and backs up its claim like MCG Surge Protection