HomePlug and whole house surge protection.

[willmatt]

I plan to use a HomePlug network in a home I recently purchased. The load center is a General Electric TTLM2020CCUG Mod 6 Load Center. I plan on installing a THQLSURGE whole house surge protector. It plugs directly into the panel like a two pole circuit breaker with a pig tail going to the neutral bus. I also plan on replacing two high loss to HomePlug signals, GE ACFI's with low loss Eaton ACFI's which are UL approved for use in GE Load Centers. Has anyone reading this thread had experience with the effects a whole house surge protector has on the HomePlug signal? I called GE product support and they didn't have a clue about HomePlug.

 

[CaptainSTX]

At my previous home I had a whole home surge protector connected to my service panel. I used the original home plug (85Mbps ) to connect my satellite receivers, AP and SlingBox and regularly had link rates of 40 - 65Mbps. I had no problems watching my SlingBox on a PC on the other side of my home. Video quality was good.

You may have issues with other sources of interference but the whole home surge protector should not cause problems as long as it doesn't share bus space with another circuit. (sometimes you might not have space for another double pole breaker to connect the surge protector to so you might cheat and use breakers feeding other circuits.)

I hav moved into an apartment and it doesn't have a whole home surge protector and I don't notice any difference in my home plug data rates.