Surge Protection

Almost every home in Marion County has expensive electronic equipment in it: A/C Units, Televisions, Computers, Water Heaters, Refrigerators, Entertainment Equipment, Hot Tubs, etc. All of these items require the use of your homes electric circuit boards. These items can easily add up to thousands of dollars, and all are vulnerable to power surges. The best way to protect ALL of your valuable electronic items in your home is with a panel surge protector.

What is a Power Surge?

Surges are sudden and unexpected spikes in voltage that travel throughout your home/office electrical system. Some surges come from within your own home/office, such as turning on a vacuum cleaner or sending a document to your printer. Other surges come from outside your home, as in electric utility switching, downed power poles, cut power lines, and lightning strikes.

Why Does My Home Need Surge Protection?

If lightning struck your home or somewhere around it, a surge may go through the electrical system and anything that is plugged in may get “fried”, meaning permanently damaged, no matter if it is on or off. We receive calls every month from customers that have had this happen. They end having to pay out of pocket to replace their electronics or appliances. The damage could have been prevented with surge protection.

Fire & Safety

Kuhn Electric offers design, engineering, inspection, and repair of Fire Alarm and safety devices. When thinking of survivability for a large company; life safety is of utmost importance. It is not only a requirement of the local jurisdiction and vast governing bodies, but usually your insurance company as well. Kuhn Electric has provided system installation and service for shell buildings, core systems, multi-tenant and high-rise buildings, medical institutions, schools, and retail facilities.

• Conceptual design
• Design development
• Fire alarm system design
• Nurse call system design
• Intercom and emergency notification system design
• Access control system design
• Intrusion detection system design
• Monitoring or GPS tracking system design
• Security camera system design

We pride ourselves on our broad range of knowledge and experience with many different systems. We believe that being well educated on the product and knowledgeable on the industry and its latest trends, policies, procedures rules and codes help with customer satisfaction. The long lasting relationship built on trust and integrity allows everyone the comfort of knowing the product and applications are performing to the specifications they were made for.

New Construction

If you’re building a new home and need electric service installed for the first time, contact Kuhn Electric for a complete estimate. We can wire your new building and add panel boxes to accommodate your electronic devices.  It doesn’t matter if your property is new, existing or a total reclamation project, you can guarantee that Kuhn Electric Inc. has the know-how and resources to bring it together on time and also within budget.

We have been helping owner and property managers in Marion County, FL for many years and we are still going strong today.

• In-house electrical plan layout
• New construction wiring
• Custom home wiring
• Interior lighting systems
• Home automation system wiring
• Appliance installation
• Home theatre wiring
• Home network / data cabling
• GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter) plugs
• Surge protection
• Ceiling fan installations
• Dimmer switches
• Recessed can lighting
• Track lighting
• Spa and pool wiring
• Landscape & security lighting
• Generator installation

Structured Wiring

As 21st century technology continues to evolve, it is increasingly necessary to have your home properly wired. “Structured Wiring” refers to running wires through the walls of your home to organize and integrate the various systems in your home. Cable or satellite TV, telephone, security, climate control, Ethernet and audio/video systems all rely upon and support each other in an advanced structured wiring system. It is important to note that even wireless technology can perform poorly or even fail without a well thought out structured wiring system, designed to support and extend the wireless devices and their capabilities to communicate. Many people, including builders and electricians can be unfamiliar with the newest products and technologies available for low voltage systems. At Kuhn Electric we have the knowledge and experience to handle the wiring scheme based on a proposed system requirements or capabilities. You have to understand the systems to get the wiring right, and we do!

Many of these systems can be extremely sophisticated and require professional installation and proprietary wiring. Our most consistent recommendation is to use at least CAT5e wiring for the control system. You should always consider 16/4 & Dual CAT-5e or CAT-6 for more sophisticated systems or in instances where you want to distribute telecommunications as well as IR (infrared) and speaker level audio.

Remember to wire bathrooms, hallways and outdoor areas! There is no reason that whole-house audio/video should not extend to these often overlooked areas. Even if you don’t plan on installing equipment at every location right away, make sure you run the cables to that location for future upgrades. It will save you money and time in the long run.