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In article , (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
nYcTracks wrote:

I'm looking for three surge protectors to protect my home studio. I live in
an area that produces frequent violent lightning storms.

Call a lightning protection guy.

Get real arrestors installed on your service entry and make sure the building
ground is seriously up to snuff. Just because it meets code doesn't mean
it's good enough.

Make sure all the cabling going into and out of the building is laid out
properly with loops and drip lines to act as inductors.

Don't forget the telephone lines, cable TV, and anything else coming in
or out. Citel makes some nice line protection hardware for coax and
datacom applications, but again if your ground is no good and the cables
are not laid out properly, they will not work.

THEN you can think about putting MOV/gas tube boxes on your equipment.
These devices rely entirely on the building ground. If the building
ground is substandard, they will not work.
--scott

One thing I like about local surge suppressors, they help protect
equipment from other equipment. If power fails, the feedback from large
transformers into the next outlet is possible. Having it close by is helpfull.

greg