lightening strike?
Ever since we had a bad lightening strike in our yard last week, I've found several outlets in the mh dead. There are a few working, checked the circuit breakers and they are fine, now what?
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cochise49 wrote:
If you use a surge suppressor (I do) and the RV itself experiences a lightning strike, wouldn't you still have problems?
There are Surge suppressors and spike supressors.. Now a true Surge suppressor/Energy MONITOR system like the HW-50C incorporates spike supression as well.
HOWEVER... A lightening strike can overwhelm the MOV's blow them up like firecrackers (only not nearly as much violence) and blow right past the system to take out stuff in the RV... If not for one thing I would have said that there is no protection against a direct hit.
(That one thing comes later this post)
For the O/P.. If you have an inverter check it
If you have not already check the GFCI outelte
What outlets/systems are not working?
IF kitchen, patio and bathroom and any outlet ABOVE the dining table,, GFCI is suspecte They can be triped or taken out by a near miss.
The true story:
Tower (Radio tower) where I woerked took a direct strike.. Everythign went DOWN (including the telephone system in the building over 100 yards away)... Then everything re-booted and came back on line.
Engineers toured the dog house (The radio equipment room at the base of the tower) next day and found one power supply (Actually a "Converter" by RV nomenclature, a 3-stage battery charger/floater) that was... Only about 50% there.. I got to see the half that remained.. Kind of impressive.. They never found the other half.
But all the radios survived, and the one the converter powered... Ran off batteries till a new converter was installed.
Only direct strike survival case I know of.. Those Michigan State Police radio engineers are clearly 1st Rate.
