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ACZL
Explorer
Jul 07, 2020

A very good reason Not to scrimp on surge protectors.

This past w/e we went to a new to us CG that said they had a 50 A site. Mind you, was told this was a older CG as well. Once on site, hooked up power via PI 50A EMS, went inside, turned on fridge and ...
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fj12ryder
Explorer III
Jul 20, 2020
FWIW, I owned 2 SurgeGuard portable 50 amp EMS units. Both failed, one rather spectacularly, due to water intrusion. They have redesigned the unit so it may be more water resistant, and now it resembles the PI unit. I didn't want to try my luck again and went with the PI EMS-PT50X, and it has proven to be a good unit. YMMV.

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