Commercial Surge Protector Installation

Think those tiny power strips you ordered from the office supply vendor will protect your business‘s expensive electronics and equipment from power surges? You may be in for a shock.

Though typical plug-in surge protectors can help, they are not equipped to handle the larger and more problematic power surges. A lightning strike can cause a major power surge and will send up to 1,000 volts through your power lines, causing serious damage. Most electronics are only equipped to handle 120 volts of power at a time.

Like the equipment they’re meant to protect, point-of-use surge protectors can take on too much power during a surge. They’ll degrade and become useless over time. Unless they come equipped with alarms or indicator lights, you won’t even know if and when they become paperweights. Your equipment will be left unprotected.

Premo Electric can help protect your company’s electronics and equipment. Our commercial surge protection solutions will protect your hardware, software, and data from corruption and physical damage. 

Small power surges can create big costs for a business.

Lightning isn’t the only power problem that can damage your equipment. The systems in your building create small spikes and surges in power every single day. Something as simple as the building’s HVAC system powering up can create smaller power surges that go unnoticed, but that create equipment failures over time.

That means your business incurs maintenance and replacement costs that drive up your overhead. That’s especially true of computers. Power surges can corrupt vital system files while degrading your hard drive’s integrity over time, greatly reducing the lifespan of your machine. 

Protect your business from severe weather.

San Diego gets plenty of severe thunderstorms. Storms don’t have to be right on top of your building to create problems. A storm can send surges through your power system from up to three miles away.

Your commercial property insurance policy might cover direct storm damage, but it won’t help you replace equipment destroyed by power surges. You can get an equipment breakdown insurance policy to help cover those costs, but it’s better (and usually cheaper) to prevent them in the first place.

Power spikes from severe weather cause more damage across America than every individual tornado put together.

What’s the best surge protector for your business?

Premo Electric will install a main service panel suppressor surge protector. Those offer full protection to your entire business by handling large voltage surges as they enter the building’s power supply.

At that point, your smaller power-strip point-of-use surge protectors can kick in to take any overflow, because then they can handle only the amount of power they were designed to handle.

Your whole-building surge protector will alert you when it has suffered too much damage to keep functioning correctly. You can then call us out to repair or replace your surge protector.

Panel suppressors are more affordable than most business owners might assume. We can usually take care of each panel in your building for less than $700. You should consider surge protection to be a necessity for your business, as important as dedicated data and phone line installation.

Give Premo Electric a call.  We’re San Diego’s top-rated electricians, and can help protect your business, starting today.