Wondering if any of ya’ll have hardwired a surge supressor for a single outlet. Don’t really want to put in a whole house, or a whole circuit system, just a single.
I need to put it into a recessed outlet branching off of a 15A circuit on a wall for a plasma screen, so strip supressors won’t work. I could run a raceway behind the rock, but I don’t think power cords behind the wall is a good idea.
I’m looking at Hubbell, and Isobar hardwired supressors. The Hubbell has about 280 Joules, and the Isobar has 600. There are some others.
The screen will draw about 400 watts.
Any info would be appreciated.
Replies
You can buy the parts and make one whatever size and shape you like. There are fancier - and arguably more effective - designs available, but a basic MOV surge suppressor is an extremely simple circuit. You can even socket the MOV's to make them replaceable, which very few commercial suppressors do. Here's a Google search that should give you some ideas.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=surge+suppressor+MOV+schematic
Have bought literally thousands of MOVs over the years, most recently from EPcos (Siemens) -- was going to reference their web site but a good surplus source for home use is even better --- http://www.electronicsurplus.com/commerce/catalog/spcategory.jsp?category_id=1732&czuid=1094364874908
An dual array of about 8 to 10 V150LA20A's make a very effective single outlet or even whole house arrestor if arranged with short leads in a radial pattern. The V130LCX1462 would be even more cost effective, but you'd have to spent more time hooking more of them up.
Its been 20 plus years and I'm still hauling around boxes of parts from them to service my tube audio gear. Are they still down on East 12th? That store was an adventure. I would go in there, see what they had, and THEN plan my project. ;-)