How surge protection has evolved over the years with technology advancement
Surge Protection Devices have proven to be critical, ever since the application of electricity in powering our homes and businesses. This is primarily down to the fact that as these devices became costlier, the importance of protecting them from damage also increased. All devices which are powered by electricity can also be harmed by it, mainly because internal elements of these devices can only endure a pre-defined amount of electrical current before they are adversely affected. In order to mitigate these types of mishaps, the first surge protection devices were honed in the form of miniature circuit breakers . These were fundamental protection systems that allowed regular functionality when electrical flow increased past a safe level – everything beyond this permittable level was immediately shut down as electricity would no longer be able to flow through it. The circuit breakers in most homes and corporate utilise this type of protection and have been relatively unchanged and con...