It's summer time...time for surge protection

This is a surge protector for low voltage com lines, like your network cables that run to auto-cashiers. Last year, I lost a $400 router because lightening came in from my com lines underground and killed my router. The router had to be programed at the factory, so it took 5 days to get a new one. We were able to process money by hand and fortunately had an extra cc swiper from another location to use on a phone line or our loses would have been even greater.

Now I have one of these on each of my cables going into my router. Hopefully, I'm ready for lightening this year. I was hit twice at one location last year. It's Florida and the fact I've got a 40' tall sign.

We've never had any lightning issues, but I know others who have. One has a wash at the highest point in town, and every time there's a lightning storm the big breakers at the pole get tripped. He has to call the city out to reset them. He ended up wiring a standard 3-prong plug inside each vacuum to use an inline surge suppressor, which he didn't do until the second time he lost $2,000 worth of components inside Fragra*Matics vacs.

The funny thing is that he replaced all the fuses in the vacs with brass couplings because the fuses (at $10 each) had to be replaced after a lightning storm. Last time I looked they still had couplings in the fuseholders.