Electrical surge protection for Home

[xtriggerman]

I ran into this guy on UT explaining Surge protection from things like Lightning and EMP either mass coronal ejection or high Nuclear blast. The take away is basically these custom modified ferrites off his web sight of course......
 https://disasterpreparer.com/product/hisat-ferrites/
 
And he has dissected and tested a variety of home circuit panel surge protectors and recommends this one.....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Siemens-Fs140-Surge-Protection-Device-140Ka-Lightning/333842358428?epid=13034412000&hash=item4dba8e209c:g:SuYAAOSwyPhf7SR4

I want to go ahead and put these in but I'm no electrician. I have 2 200 amp panels that run my home so I'm not so sure the Fs140 can do a 200 amp panel. Any one have any ideas about this?

[thresher_593]

I had some conversation with an electrician about this once.

As I recall, his recomendation was a surge protector that plugs into the circuit breaker panel like a breaker. I know Square D makes them and I believe they're available for other brand boxes as well.
The suppression is limited, the ones we sold at Lowes were only rated to 20,000 volts, lightning can be a lot more than that. But 20,000 volts will squash any garden variety surge that comes down the line. To work correctly, they need to be plugged into the first position on the panel.
Some building codes are starting to require the plug ins.
None of the plug ins will protect from EMP, that's another issue altogether.

Hope this helps XT.

[Toad]

#1,do you have a dedicated ground? #2 Do you have a tied ground? #7 are the wall outlets in your house (receptacles) in  y'unznhouse have 2 holes er da drhree?

[Rocketvapor]

Is your house wiring in shielded conduit?
Do you have wiring, extension cords exposed to EMP radiation?
Are you sitting in front of a device with exposed, unshielded wires?

[Toad]

You can run all the surge protectors you want. If your wiring sucks, yer kinda boned. The protector you have listed above is just for lighting.