EATON CHSPT2ULTRA Ultimate Surge Protection 3rd Edition, 2.38 Length, 5.25 Width 7.5 Height

This is one of the better panel mounted whole house surge suppressor out there. Great price and arrived in perfect condition.

This surge suppressor unit was a replacement for an earlier model I had that was damaged due to a plumbing catastrophe in the home. This unit is said to suppress power line surges as well as lightning strikes if nearby. The unit was easy to put in place in the service panel since it attached to the existing breakers and busses. A less that 1 hour job cover to cover.

If you do it yourself please shut off the main breaker 1st.

Had this whole house surge protector added to electrical panel. No issues to date, seems to be working as designed.

Device was just installed when we had our power panel replaced and the indicator lights are both GREEN. So we dont know what we dont know but it would seem to be a very reasonable expense to protect all of your devices. Shop around as the pricing of this item is all over the map.

I am by no means an electrician, just a typical do-it-yourselfer that watches way too many YouTube videos! As a precaution, if you are at all uncomfortable working inside your load center, hire an electrician. At the very least make sure to use a voltage checker and/or multimeter to make sure you are not working around hot circuits. I even used insulated electricians tools as an added precaution. Be that as it may, I purchased a home back in April. Its 114 years old and the second floor electrical is ungrounded and the majority of it is still knob and tube. Rather than shell out thousands for dollars for a complete rewire, I have been slowly updating what my skill level allows me to. Essentially, I am replacing existing ungrounded three-prong outlets with GFCI units. All of the electrical on the first floor was updated at some point and it is all grounded, so I am able to protect my electronics and appliances with typical plug-in surge protectors. Since everything on the second floor is so old and not grounded, surge protectors wont do much for equipment protection. Enter the Eaton whole house surge protector. Installation was actually a lot faster than I anticipated. Once I turned the power off at the main breaker, I simply popped the cover off of my load center (its a Square D QO), and moved some existing breakers around to make room for a dedicated 50 amp breaker per Eatons recommendations. This granted me the opportunity to install the 50 amp breaker as the first breaker in the load center, enabling surge protection for all downstream circuits (including the sub panel which feeds my kitchen). With the breaker installed, I then looked for a suitable knock-out on the load center for the surge protector. Now, this is why I only rated the unit four out of five stars. Regardless of where I chose to mount and install the surge protector, there was always an issue with the included pigtail being too short to reach either the 50 amp breaker and/or the neutral and ground bars. The instructions inform the user that for maximum effectiveness of the unit, the wires need to be installed as short and as straight as possible. In my situation, this was not the case. While not ideal, what I ended up doing was mounting the surge protector on the side of load center which allowed me to wire it into the neutral and ground bars with no issue. At the same time, this particular side of the load center was less crowded and I didnt have a lot of existing wiring that I had to work around, which was a huge plus. Unfortunately, this left me with two hot wires, the red and the black, being too short to wire into the breaker. I hated to do it and I loathe to disclose it, but I had to buy a couple of spools of red and black wire from a big box home improvement store and splice them into the surge protectors pigtail in order for me to wire it into the circuit breaker. What made it an even harder pill to swallow was that where the dedicated circuit was installed, there was a ton of existing wiring and not a lot of space to work in. So, I had to make the splices with butt connectors which make the whole install look like excrement. As a precaution I wrapped the splices in electrical tape, too. Once I had everything wired up, I reinstalled the load center cover and flipped the breaker. Voila! I had power once again and both lights on the surge protector lit up, indicating that it is functioning correctly. I have had a few thunderstorms since the installation, and the surge protector is still going strong. At some point in time I am going to clean up the wiring in the load center and go for a more professional-looking set up for the surge protector, but for now it works and serves its purpose. Failing that, I may even bring in a professional just to look everything over and see what they recommend.

The process was excelent and the product is the best qualify.

Hopefully It will stop the electric demon from possessing my electronics and letting the Gremlins infest my house. So far good. I will let you know when I take a direct lightning strike.

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Modern appliances (e.g., refrigerator, range, dishwasher, microwave, washer, dryer, security system console, TV, desktop) are expensive electronic gadgets that contain a system board. This product protects against sudden loss of power or fluctuation in voltage. Holms recommends this line of surge protector made by Eaton. After speaking with a tech rep from Eaton, I opted for the more expensive ULTRA. I also use a separate isolation transformer for my High Definition TV and a UPS for my desktop and peripherals.