Mr. Appliance of St. George
St. George appliance repair for refrigerators, washers, dryers and kitchen appliances, including the electronics monsoon season is hard on.
Mr. Appliance of St. George services refrigerators, washers, dryers and kitchen appliances across the area. Almost every appliance in a modern house is now a computer attached to a motor, which changes both what fails and what the surrounding electrical environment does to it.
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Southern Utah's monsoon season, which runs from roughly July into September, brings concentrated thunderstorm activity to the region. What that means for appliances is less about direct lightning strikes, which are rare, than about what surrounds them: nearby strikes couple surges onto distribution lines, and the outages and reclosures that follow produce their own voltage transients when power returns. Motors tolerate this reasonably well. Control boards, which run low-voltage logic, tolerate it much less well, and a board that has taken repeated small surges often fails later without any obvious triggering event.
The useful response is unglamorous. A surge protective device installed at the panel clamps what arrives on the incoming lines and protects everything downstream, including the appliances that are hard-wired or sit behind a refrigerator where a plug-in protector never gets used. Plug-in protection at individual machines adds a second layer. And an appliance left running unattended through a storm is worth switching off at the outlet rather than trusting to ride it out - the cheapest board repair is the one that never happens.
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Can storms damage appliances without a direct lightning strike?
Yes. Direct strikes are rare, but nearby strikes couple voltage surges onto distribution lines, and the outages and automatic reclosures that follow generate their own transients when power is restored. Motors tolerate this fairly well; the low-voltage control boards that run modern appliances tolerate it much less well.
Do surge protectors help with appliances?
They do, and the most useful place for one is the electrical panel rather than the outlet. A panel-mounted surge protective device clamps what arrives on the incoming lines and covers everything downstream, including hard-wired appliances and machines pushed against a wall where a plug-in unit would never be fitted. Plug-in protection adds a second layer at individual machines.
Why do appliance control boards fail with no obvious cause?
Surge damage is often cumulative. A board can absorb repeated small transients that each fall short of destroying it, degrading components until one ordinary power cycle finishes the job. That is why a failure frequently appears weeks after the storm season rather than during it.
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