Protecting Your Pool from Electrical Surges

With the ever-increasing extreme summer weather, there is no time like the present to be concerned with protecting your pool from storms. An electrical spike can wreak havoc on your pool, so make sure you're in the know.

Since your pool system contains both high-voltage and low-voltage equipment, no pool owner is an exception. It is important to make sure you have a surge protection device on all of these to prevent electrical disruptions, in the form of electricity voltage strikes. This voltage surge protector is wired into the power line that supplies the pool equipment. When lighting strikes the system, causing a surge, the unit disrupts the excess electricity, sending spikes offline and into neutral wiring to be absorbed by the ground.

Surge protection should always be installed by a trained and licensed electrical contractor. This should not be considered a DIY job, as high-voltage electrical currents are involved. This may be a pricey undertaking, averaging about $500-750, but the cost to replace your pool equipment in the increasingly likely event that lighting strikes would be exponentially higher.

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