surge protection
Spike damage prevention
Surge protection is the shielding of electrical equipment from sudden voltage spikes.
Power surges—from lightning strikes, utility switching, or large appliances cycling on—can damage sensitive electronics.
Surge protectors divert excess voltage to ground, sacrificing themselves to save connected devices: Plug your computer into a surge protection strip, not directly into the wall.
- groundingConnecting to earth
- power stripMulti-socket electrical device
- circuit breakerAutomatic power cutoff device
- data centersFacilities storing networked computers
- joulesSI energy units
home appliances · power outage · whole house · voltage regulator · fault detection · electrical grounding · medical equipment · current · industrial machinery · circuit · renewable energy systems · brown out · spike · battery · extension cord · wall outlet · electrical insulation · zap
- electricityelectricity, battery, batteries, wire, wires
- electrical systemswiring, circuits, voltage, transformers, electricity
- coastal managementcoastal erosion, coastal wetlands, sea level rise, seawalls, coastal flooding
- electrical wiringwires, wire, ground wire, circuit, grounding wire
- electrical workwiring, conduit, soldering, circuit breaker, grounding
- power gridpower grid, power plant, transformers, power station, transmission lines
surge protectionpower surge
Abrupt voltage increase
voltage spike · electrical surge · lightning strike · overvoltage · electrical overload