I'd like to thank everybody for the help..... I won't be moving to the
desert though. After speaking with the local electric utility I'm going for
the whole house surge protector with smaller plug in units for all
electronics. The APC units are under consideration.

Thanks !





"finalquest" wrote in message
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Greetings all. As of late we've been getting some incredible thunderstorms
with enough hits to think it's a war. Anyway some of my equipment has
suffered and I'm looking for ideas to better protect everything in my
house. Is a whole house surge protector the answer? Do I have to wrap the
house in a metal grid? Any help or ideas would help. Everything is
properly grounded just to start. I haven't had a direct hit but close
enough....
Thanks for any input.