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Product

Supco Supco SCM150

Category

Home & Garden

Report number

20190306-E8BB2-2147382338

Ownership age

About 83 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20190306-E8BB2-2147382338. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Supco Supco SCM150 (Supco Power Surge Protector connected to my AC unit. Approximately 3x3.5inch black box with Supco SCM150 Type 2 SPD written on it.). Incident: On Tuesday February 26, 2019 at 9am I was sitting in my backyard when I heard a loud pop and spark like noises.I turned to look in the direction of that noise and saw flames coming from the side of my house where my AC unit was located. I grabbed my hose and put out the fire only to learn that the fire was started by the Supco 150 power surge protector. While I waited for my AC company to come check this out the fire started up again. At this point I called 911. Needless to say if I had not been home or if this happened in the middle of the night this could have ended in tragedy. My AC technician told me and I quote �I have installed thousands of these devices and yours is the third fire I have seen.� It scares me to think how long before the thousands he has installed catch on fire. I came to learn that UL had issued a warning on this product in a public notice on July 29, 2016. It saddens me to think that this product is still in use and can still be purchased on E-Bay. If you Google- supco surge protector fire- you will see more accounts of this product catching fire. There should be an immediate recall on this product.

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