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By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:39:51 +0000

Dang. LOL Ah well what’s another $200 between garage door owner and repair place. Cements a lovely relationship. Wish they’d come up with a built in surge so that we don’t have to try to remember to protect EVERYTHING.

We lost phones, the home networking box, a tv, a graphic card, and the garage door opener. LOL

It’s amazing how accustomed you get to a automatic opener.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:19:55 +0000

@Sarah,

Thank you, You don’t need a ceramic surge protector as such, but it should be current rated to handle the garage door’s motor. The back panel of the opener box itself will tell you the amperage. Many of the surge protectors from electronic store are not heavy enough to handle induction motor loads like a garage door opener.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:55:05 +0000

There is one other thing you should do when you install a garage door opener. Get a small surge protector to plug it into.

Had a bad lightening strike a year (maybe 2) ago and it fried the electronics in the opener and messed up the laser thingy.

The repair bill was a lot more than the little surge protector. The fellow at Best Buy (where we got it) said to make sure it was a ceramic protector. Something about the others only work for a year or so then no longer protect.

Either that or he just wanted us to pay more. :-)

Thanks for the handy tips.