Recently there have been pop up storms rolling through the Columbus, Ohio region and surrounding areas. These storms have been producing some cloud to ground lightning and cloud to cloud lightning. The cloud to ground lightning is the most dangerous and can cause all kinds of problems with electrical items, especially with garage door openers.
Many homes have garage door openers plugged into an outlet on the ceiling. Most ceiling outlets are not surge protected. Without a surge protector on the plug for the garage door opener, there is a risk that the opener will take a lightning surge from cloud to ground lightning. The lightning surge will burn the electrical board out of the opener and damage the circuits inside. If this happens, the opener will most likely need to be replaced. Most openers cannot with stand a lightning surge. To protect your opener from a lightning surge, you should install a surge protector on the ceiling plug for your garage door opener. This will reduce the risk of the garage door opener taking damage from a lightning strike.
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