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cKarlGo
Explorer
May 19, 2014

Surge suppressor: before or after the transfer switch

I was just reading through the installation manual for the surge suppressor I'm going to have put on my new gasser and found that it can be wired in before the transfer switch or after so that it prot...
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Bobbo
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May 20, 2014
Z71 4x4 wrote:
wa8yxm wrote:
Personally I trust my generator...


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Modern generators have built in safety protection.
Surge suppressor first, then ATS.

But anything made by man can fail. I vote for after the transfer switch. I'd rather risk the transfer switch to bad power from shore and generator than risk everything else in the MH to bad power from the generator.

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