Kitchen Large Electric Appliances - surge protectors

With your vast knowledge and experience, your thoughts please.........in the last week two different people had issues with appliance failure, one it was the small coils in the dryer, the other had something to do with a washer electronic board failing. Knowing the vast electronics used today and the fact that regardless what the electric companies will tell you about power outages, I wonder if many if not most of the electronic failures today can be traced back to damage caused by a surge when the electric goes off? My thought was, why not install surge protectors on such items as appliances. Any thoughts on this?
I have to believe that with so many electronic controls used to day in such appliances, de-humidifiers, you name it that surge protectors might just save needless repairs. Look forward to hearing from you

Dave Doran

IMO, there shouldn't be that much of an issue with surges from the power line. Most solid state control circuitry runs on low voltage and the first thing that is done on the circuit board is to step the voltage down with a transformer and run it through a rectifier, filter capacitor and voltage regulator. That should stop virtually all power line surges.

On the other hand, local lightning strikes can generate voltage transients directly within circuitry. That's a whole different story.

In regards to the 'heavier' items like heating coils, motors, etc., they're fairly immune to surges.