Power surge
When not on the road,I park my RV in a RV storage faculty under a canapy with 50 amp power . I utilize my progressive surge suppressor . Lately, I noticed 3 times this past week that the clock on mic...
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chuckftboy wrote:
Be glad you have surge protection. You seen 133 but the inital surge may have been even higher. Voltages that high normally don't affect converters, inverters and resistance loads but are very bad for electronics like TV's, computers and some circuit boards. Most RVs in storage are probably ok because not much is energized.
Many/most modern computers and TVs and other electronics with switching power supplies are not especially susceptible to moderate voltage excursions. In fact, many are now designed to operate from 100V to 240V nominal without adjustment or modification, that range covering the worldwide electric supply. (This is nice for the manufacturer because they don't have to make different versions of their machine for different world markets—they only need to throw the right sort of power cord in the box.)
Of course, Murphy will generally insist that the most expensive and/or hardest to replace device in your RV will be the one most readily destroyed by a power supply disturbance...and the cheap radio or whatever that you'd love to have an excuse to get rid of will be immortal.
