Africa Surge
Welcome to Africa Surge Protection (Pty) Ltd
Power failures and lightning storms cause havoc with our electronic equipment and can cause severe damage. The inconvenience and trouble caused, create frustrations that can be AVOIDED with good quality guaranteed surge protectors.
Surge protection devices are your answer to this natural phenomenon. Naturally occurring lightning and thunderstorms are still some of the most spectacular natural events occuring on this planet. A single lightning strike can be the equivalent of a 1-kilo Ton nuclear explosion. Wow, that's powerful! Scientists have tried for years to harness this powerful event, but are yet to succeed. Mainly because we have not developed a way to control the strike zone and produce a device to capture the energy.
A single lightning strike can be measured at above 1 million volts.
So when does a lightning strike become a surge? Quite simply the moment the lightning bolt we see in the sky hits the ground or building, it becomes a surge. Therefore by definition, a lightning protector is a lightning pole (or similar device) you often see near a thatched roof house. While a surge protector is an electronic device designed to protect equipment from a power surge that travels along cables such as power electrical cables, telephone lines and TV / satellite cables.
In The Beginning...
The company started with humble beginnings, with only one product, the Wonder Plug without surge protection, originally made in the garage and on the home kitchen table. Due to the simplistic and crude original design, it was very difficult to make and reject rates were very high, so many were scrapped before they reached the customer. Jason Roper, as the designer and original patent holder of the Wonder Plug, met with a very successful and talented businessman by the name of John Mashall. John had started a company that is better known today as Conlog or Control Logic in Durban. He later sold Conlog to Anglo American. He had suggested adding more value to an already fascinating product by looking into surge protection. Jason immediately went to work and learnt all there was to know about Lightning Surges and Surge protection. With his back ground in Electronics, he soon developed and expanded the range of products to include surge protection.
As business grew, money became available to make his own tooling. This made it easier to produce the surge protectors and reduced reject rates out of the 'production line'
Soon the production requirements were too large to handle alone, so the handicapped society was approached to assist with production. Much training was required by an astute management team at the instutue, who were able to divise a good system that ran the production of the Wonder Plug Surge Protection range for several months. Reject rates were lower than previously, but still too high for normal production standards. The product was still very labour intensive even with the new and improved modified tooling.
Jason decided to take it up a notch, with sales continuing to grow steadily.
more to follow......