Hi,

May I know anyone using any lightning protection in the house?
Is it good to have or nice to have?

Please advise.

Thank you.

Depends whether you have any High-Tech or sensitive equipments that requires protection.

It'd be good to have for those that are constantly powered on 24/7.

I have TV, Astro, fridge, hood, air-cons, PCs and etc. Should I invest on this?

I use cal-lab for equipments level protection. If you need entire house is a different setup.

Hi,

Is it 1 cal-lab for 1 equipment? Or 1 cal-lab can used for multiple equipments?


Thank you.

Be a cheapskate, use lower rating ELCB.
Spend more on your ground, original grounding point provided by developer are not deep enough.

it's good to have. btw, your house always strike by lightning?

It is up to individual. Installing lightning surge protection is just like buying insurance. It is there to help you when you need it. If you have none, it is always too late when disaster happened.

In short, there are 2 general protection categories:
1) Outdoor protection- lightning rod, to protect the building structure from direct lightning strike
2) Indoor protection- SPD (Surge Protection Device), installed inside the Electrical DB (Distribution Board), to protect all electrical appliances

Frankly speaking, perhaps this is also Malaysians' mentality, 90% of my customers install the lightning surge protection only after the lightning strike disaster occurred. The damages are far more expensive than the cost of installing an indoor surge protection device. "I should have installed it earlier...." is what I heard most of the time. It is always too late for them to know that starting from RM500 to have the whole house protected by industrial grade professional lightning surge protection device. I'm not talking about those plug-n-play type of power extension with built-in surge protection function.

Check out my company website to understand the differences between those power extension and the professional protection.
www.LightningSurgeProtectionMalaysia.com

Can be used for multiple, depending on how your equipment are layed.

I'd look into protecting TV, Astro and PC...hood not too sure

You can check it out there --> Cal-lab

ELCB won't prevent lightning. Only 2 days ago my colleague house had lightning attack and fry off his router, unify modem, cordless phone and autogate board. It happen when the lightning struck on the electric pole, and travel through the live / neutral wires, that fry all the above items i mention. Modem TM will replace foc, cordless phone and router all have to buy. Even with good grounding & roof lightning pole, lighting can come from other path.

The electric pole wires also have to be change after the strike.

This post has been edited by weikee: Apr 18 2014, 02:20 PM

You can join it to extension. Don't overload.

Guess you make it wrong already.
For your friend case, it is coming through the phone line. Happen to me twice. I'm using lower rating ELCB.

whole house protection is a worthy investment. got that installed, a phone line surge protection and fine protection from belkin in front of the pc & office & tv equipment. has saved me serveral times before already (when my neighbours stuff was spoiled...) - i stay in a high risk area (elevated).

No. Unifi signal comes through fibre optic cable, which is not susceptible to lightning.

interested on this... how much is the cost with installation for double story house with astro & streamyx? I have those belkin & cal-lab but if it can stop from surge at earlier stage much better and cost to buy belkin & cal-lab is not cheap as well if you need to buy more than one or two

This post has been edited by exkaizen: Apr 18 2014, 03:17 PM

Unifi is fiber friend. And TNB came replace the burned wires on the TNB poles.

I got 4 cal-labs.

I don't wish my house always strike by lightning
But it happened to me in my current house, my modem, CPU and monitor gone...

So I am thinking to add this protection in my new house
Just want to know more for this as I seldom heard people putting this at their house

huiyoo.... yeah I got one... but if installing cal-lab much cheaper than those at db... then have to get more cal-lab...

I think he mentioned somewhere it's RM500 onwards for those at db...

I'm using 5