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   MikeHennessy | Mar 24, 2008 07:17pm | #1

   What I did was to run a length of conduit in the wall from behind the TV down to near the baseboard. TV cord goes down that & is out of sight. You can plug it into the supressor at floor level that way, and never see the cord.

   Mike Hennessy
   Pittsburgh, PA

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   TomT226 | Mar 24, 2008 07:22pm | #2

   I put a cable race from the base to behind the plasma (50" Sony) so I could run all the wires through it.  Built a rolling cab to contain all of the electronics along with the surge protector.  They're not really very big.  You could do a recess under the mount. Here's a pic.

    

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   Stuart | Mar 24, 2008 08:30pm | #3

   You can get receptacles with the surge protection built in.  Here's one example.  http://www.smarthome.com/865130.html

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   sotabuilder | Mar 24, 2008 10:10pm | #4

   Pick up a breaker with surge protection on it for your panel....

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   maddog3 | Mar 25, 2008 12:22am | #5

   like Stuart mentioned, or just search for" TVSS receptacles ", Hubbell makes some but the catalog URL is a foot long.
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   but the only problem I have with hiding it is not being able to see the device indication that tells you if it's working or if you have lost protection

   
   

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   bigman | Mar 25, 2008 12:41am | #6

   This is one of the items we use

   http://www.panamax.com/Products/In-Wall/MIW-POWER-PRO.aspx

   But we always tell the customer they should have a whole-house surge protector 1st when we do an A/V install to try and stop it before it gets to the components.

   http://www.intermatic.com/Default.asp?action=subcat&sid=138&cid=61&did=6

   When the install is done after the house is drywalled we use

   http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?sitex=10024:22372:US&item=12281

   with a Leviton surge receptacle, the advantage of the REB is we have more room to snake the wires and we can tuck the A/V cables out of the way. It also works great when someone wants to add a plasma above an existing gas fireplace, we can cut a big enough hole to make sure the wires do not contact the fireplace/flue pipe.

   http://www.issalarms.com

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   maddog3 | Mar 25, 2008 01:22am | #7

   very nice, clean looking maybe you recall a company a few years back that was based in Batavia, Ill. that had developed a surge protector that could finally be used on the grounding wire in residential,
   the claim was their device would protect against surges and if it failed would not cause a dead short to ground !
   which was a problem with ordinary MOVs and the main reason they were never used in such an application I have looked several times since I read about it in EC&M and online, but have not found anything about them, I wondered if they were still around and if anyone ever used the devices.

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   bigman | Mar 25, 2008 01:42am | #8

   Sorry, don't know who makes/made a surge like that.

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   maddog3 | Mar 25, 2008 03:06am | #9

   oh well my quest continues.. :).

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   magnum | Mar 25, 2008 08:07am | #10

   here's what i use

   http://www.powerbridgesolution.com

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   maddog3 | Mar 25, 2008 01:09pm | #11

   hehehe a modern clock receptacle with an inny and an outty.

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