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Each year, the average home or business experiences more than 300 potentially damaging surges, Tucson's monsoon seasons in our area raises the potential even higher. Next to the cost of a home and car, your HVAC equipment is the homeowner’s most expensive asset and unfortunately usually goes unprotected. |
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Causes
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Utilities Sag | ||||
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These events consist of crossover of phases, capacitor switching, grid shifting, inductive loads, and open neutrals. |
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Although nothing can prevent a direct strike, lightning is the most obvious and most sensational type of surge and can travel up to 1⁄2 mile from its original strike point. |
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65 to 80 percent of transient surges are caused from everyday household devices. Pool/well pumps, power tools, refrigerators, dishwashers, washer/dryer and hair dryers are among the usual surge suspects. |
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The primary purpose of duct smoke detection is to prevent injury, panic, and property damage by reducing the spread (recirculation) of smoke and/or the transfer of smoke, toxic gases, and flames from area to area. Smoke and “dirty air” are a serious hazard to life and safety unless blowers are shut down and dampers are closed. |
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Duct smoke detection also can serve to protect the air conditioning system itself from fire and smoke damage, but most importantly, when hooked to your home alarm system, can work as a Whole-Home fire alarm system alerting the Fire Department to the danger For the office or commercial use it can be used to assist in equipment protection applications, such as in the ventilation/exhaust ductwork of mainframe computers and storage devices. |
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Each year, about 170 people in the United States die from Carbon monoxide produced by non-automotive consumer products. Because CO is odorless, colorless, and otherwise undetectable to the human senses, this accessory will detect CO from both inside and outside the unit. Once detected the unit is shut off and alarms are set off. |
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A duct installed Carbon monoxide detector can be the quickest way to detect a CO issue in your house. This unit not only monitors the CO levels inside your ducts but it's also equipped with an outside/surface side detection that could detect an issue outside of your unit. More importantly, when hooked to your home alarm system, can work as a Whole-Home alarm system and alert the Fire Department of the danger. |
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