30 amp vs 50 amp campsite ???

jnharley wrote:
Think about what would happen to the electronics in your rig if you are near a lightning strike or if there is some sort of power surge.

If there is a nearby lightening strike, Depending on how near it is, Your surge protector, along with most of the electronics in your RV and that may include the engine control computer... FRIED.

In a direct hit, be it on your RV or the picnic table beside it this is a given.

if it's far enough away then the spike supressors built into your surge supressor MAY protect you... or not,, depending on how much protection you have left... I have enough protection for spikes to cover a 200 amp house service.. And when I am in the COE park their power panels have... that much more.

Though I have seen a radio tower take a direct hit and the radios still worked.... Well.. not something I care to be that close to ever again the engineers who designed that system are tops in their business they designed it to do the impossible (Survive a direct hit) and it did.. Save for one power supply.. They still have not found half of it. (I saw the other half with my own eyes).

BUT, the primary advantages of the surge protector are as follows:
Man parks the wiring is a tad,,, well.. anemic, and if it's August and 100+ in the shade adn everybody fires up the old A/C.. well I have seen the pedistal hit 84 volts.. Surge guards cut off their protected rigs at a much higher voltage.. My rig had better voltage thanks to Hughes Autoformer.. but that only feeds on A/C on this house.

And I have read story after story of people who plugged into what they thought was a TT-30 outlet at a house or garage.. only it was not it was 240 volt... The surge guard normally protects against this as well.. It may, however. sacrifice itself doing so (or it may just blow the MOV's (Spike supressors).