Here's a whole house surge protector that you install at your circuit panel and the idea is that it'll protect all of your electrical devices without needing surge protectors at every device. I'm not sure if they really work but it makes sense and wasn't too difficult to install.
Here's all the tools and materials that I needed. Since I didn't have room in my panel to fit a a double pole breaker, I had to buy 2 tandem breakers and make room.
Here's the surge protector mounted to the bottom of my circuit panel box.
Here you can see the two tandem breakers and then the double pole breaker right above them. Since there are two 120V buses in the panel box, the double pole makes sure the surge protector is wired to both of them.
Here's the panel after the install. Ideally you want to place the surge protector breaker as close to the main lines at the top but since I had to mount the protector at the bottom, that's as far as the wires would reach.
Here's what the normal breaker box looks like.
The other electrical project I finished was running CAT6 cable from the network panel to my bedroom TV area. There's already a cable going to the bedroom but not to the right spot so I thought it would be easy to just run a new line. Bought this cable from monoprice.com.
Here's my network panel. I used my fiberglass poles as seen in this post to snake the wire up through this panel and up in the attic. I then ran the wire to the bedroom and snaked it down the wire to the right spot.
This was the hardest part. Fishing the wire out of the wall and through the opening. Luckily I was able to reach the wire without having to cut any holes in the wall. I just had to remove the existing wall plate and junction box.
