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jondiggsit on Dec 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Regret Making My House a Smart-House (2013)

Definitely need to protect the processors/servers on a location by location basis from voltage surges. The switches and outlets will be fine.

762236 on Dec 14, 2016 [–]

The smart switches and outlets have microcontrollers and other fragile logic and will convert AC to low-voltage DC. A normal light switch will tolerate quite a bit of a surge, but these switches will not be happy.

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