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Detroit Edison Offers Home Surge Protection
Power surges can mean trouble for electric appliances, but there is help. Detroit
Edison now offers protection to your entire home from power surges, short bursts
of electricity that are unexpected and uncontrolled, and can be caused by conditions
both outside and inside your home. Power surges can potentially cause partial
or even complete destruction of the circuits in electric devices.
Detroit Edison offers residential customers three different levels of surge
protection. The basic package safeguards your home's entire electrical system
from external surges exceeding 150 volts. The expanded package safeguards your
whole house plus either the telephone or cable TV. The total protection package
safeguards your electrical system plus your telephone and cable TV from eternal
surges.
"This program provides our customers a tool to protect their appliances and
sensitive electronic equipment," said George Jackson Jr. director of Customer
Marketing for Detroit Edison. "Solid state electronics are in nearly every electric
device in our homes, including personal computers, home entertainment centers
and smart appliances, and all are susceptible to electrical surges caused by
lightning strikes, tree limbs touching power lines, nearby large motor-driven
operations starting up, and many other external causes."
Power surges don't only come from outside sources. Refrigerators, freezers
and other motor-driven appliances can cause internal power surges that can damage
your electrical systems. That's why Detroit Edison also is offering additional
plug-in surge protection devices to help safeguard sensitive home equipment
or appliances from internally generated surges.
High-voltage surges are not the only concern. Low voltage or a momentary power
outage also can seriously affect some home office equipment. Detroit Edison
offers Uninterruptible Power supply products for computers that provide from
six to 20 minutes of continued operation during a power failure. In addition,
special software automatically saves any files you were working on and shuts
down you computer, even when you're not at your computer.
For more information or to order call 1-888-767-8548 or online at www.detroitedison.com
and click on the Surge Protection banner.
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