Does electricity surge damage house wiring?

[MM]

I can't find any further details beyond what the BBC reported.

MM

[bud--]

=2E w_ must drag the thread into his =93whole house protectors work and plug- in protectors don=92t=94 crusade. In fact, while both are effective for very short duration surges, MOVs in both will rapidly be destroyed by =93temporary overvoltage=94 (the event in this thread). A major researcher in the surge field, Francois Martzloff, has written "In fact, the major cause of TVSS [surge suppressor] failures is a temporary overvoltage, rather than an unusually large surge."

The probability of a =91whole house=92 suppressor providing protection is close to zero.

-- bud--

[w_tom]

A sales promoter for plug-in protectors must turn every discussion nasty. Relevant question is how high that fault voltage would be to cause wire failure and fire. In one location, voltage so high as to blow meters off the building and still not cause fires. In another location, reason for one fire is unknown. One who had a 'whole house' protector suffered no damage (except to the meter), obviously would not suffer wiring damage, while neighbors with plug-in protectors did suffer damage =96 as should be expected.

Bud must create a nasty flame war. Insults gets others to ignore what the OP asked. Others then will forget that Bud is not answering the OP's questions.

Relevant is how high that fault voltage would be to cause a fire and why that one fire existed. Bud, a sales promoter and troll, follows me everywhere creating flame wars because this poster has factually identified the scam promoted by Bud: plug-in protectors. Bud has no interest in the topic nor providing the OP with a useful answer. Where the fault was so large as to blow meters off buildings, still no fire resulted. Unknown is how much higher that voltage could be to cause wiring failures. Those who were not using a 'whole house' protector did suffer appliance and plug-in protector damage AND would not suffer wiring damage. That is what the science says should happen..

Bud will reply with more nasty posts irrelevant to the OP's question. He is promoting plug-in protector sales. Bud will not say how high that voltage must be to blow meters off the building. When I posted this event earlier, then Bud denied it happened =96 post anything to argue. Will Bud also deny meters in Scotland were blown off the building?

How high must that voltage be to cause wiring damage? How high was that voltage to cause meters to blow off the building? Instead, Bud wants to change the topic to posting insults - a Rush Limbaugh tactic. Insults can cause some to ignore technical facts.

[Bob Eager]

(more US-centric ranting)

Oh, give it a rest.