At one time, the National Electrical Code (NEC) contained two Articles you won’t find as of the 2020 revision: Art. 280 (surge arrestors) and Art. 285 (transient voltage surge suppressors or TVSS).

Explanation: The requirement for surge protection at dwelling units was added to the 2020 NEC in Sec. 230.67 for all services supplying dwelling units. The 2023 NEC expanded those requirements to ...

While 80% of surges originate internally from normal operations like motor starts and VFD inverter operation, external causes like lightning and utility switching also demand industrial-grade surge ...

Most surge protectors fail quietly. They don’t spark, smoke, or give you any dramatic warning. They simply stop protecting your devices – and you’d never know it. Nearly every home today has ...

Austere packages several kinds of promises into its new VII Series surge protector: reduction of electrical interference that produces worse audio or affects video, an extremely tight control of ...