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RustyJC
Nov 02, 2015Explorer
I hope for your sake that you have a good power protection system if you lose a neutral on 50 amp service. That happened to my daughter and son-in-law - a bad neutral lead in their shore power cord. They burned up more than $7K in electrical appliances and devices in their 5th wheel (it literally let the smoke out!!) when the neutral let go.
They had a power protection system that plugged into the pedestal, but since the neutral fault was downstream of the power protection system, it didn't pick it up and shut off power. They now have a hard-wired power protection system that senses power immediately before it goes into the 5th wheel's power distribution center (breaker box).
Rusty
They had a power protection system that plugged into the pedestal, but since the neutral fault was downstream of the power protection system, it didn't pick it up and shut off power. They now have a hard-wired power protection system that senses power immediately before it goes into the 5th wheel's power distribution center (breaker box).
Rusty
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