Square D Homeline is the cheapest of the Square D family of breakers. You are much better off using the Square D QO line. They cost more, but they are of much higher quality and reliability. Ask your electrician or electrical contractor what panel and breakers they have at home, and most will use the QO line.
Alan - N7MIT Alan R. Downing Phoenix, AZ From: Frontier ac2ev [via Elecraft] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 5:24 PM To: kd7gc Subject: Whole house surge protector at the main breaker? I use a Square D Homeline SurgeBreaker Model HOM2175SB As that's what fits my panel. Your panel may be different. You need to mount it as close to the top as possible and it takes up two spots, so that it covers both legs. It has a small neutral pigtail that also gets connected. I also use surge suppressors at each piece of electronic, home theater, TVs, computers, etc. I have an L-Com unit on the telephone line coming into the house that is grounded to the electrical service panel. The cable TV is also tied to ground. My main shack computer goes through a protected UPS. Does it work? I hope so. All our services are underground but I've had one strike to tree next to the house and one strike across the street. No problems yet. 73 Don AC2EV > On Jan 6, 2016, at 18:43, [hidden email] wrote: > > [Elecraft] Whole house surge protector at the main breaker? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] _____ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Whole-house-surge-protector-at-the-main -breaker-tp7612410.html To unsubscribe from Elecraft, click here <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubsc ribe_by_code&node=365791&code=a2Q3Z2NAcS5jb218MzY1NzkxfDE3MzQ0NDk4ODY=> . <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_v iewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.Basi cNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template .NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_ emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> NAML -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Whole-house-surge-protector-at-the-main-breaker-tp7612410p7612418.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
