Is it ok to camper plugged in all the time?

Atlee wrote:
No more dangerous to leave my TT plugged in 24/7 than it is to leave my home computer plugged in 24/7 or my HDTV, etc. The electricity is coming from the same electric box.

Ergo the reason I now will only power these types of devices through some form of surge protection. :W

Unfortunately two winters ago I did not have our upstairs television protected and a sudden power line surge to the house took out the television's power supply. It's a Sanyo television but I couldn't find another power supply for it anywhere, even from the manufacturer, until one day I spotted an ad from a guy in Quebec who had the exact same television and was parting it out because the screen was shot. I paid $20 for his power supply, installed it in my set, and the television is still working like a charm two years later. I got lucky but you can bet that television is now plugged into a surge protector. ;)

During that same power surge two years ago my iMac was plugged into a surge protector ... went downstairs to find the protector blown to smithereens and the duplex receptacle into which it was plugged badly burnt. I replaced both obviously, powered up the iMac, and discovered it hadn't been affected at all - lucky again. ;)

In the last six months we've purchased a new washer & dryer and like many appliances these days they're full of electronics so unlike the old mechanical machines they replaced the only time they're plugged in is when we're using them, otherwise they're completely disconnected from power.

Lesson learned - these days I don't plug anything with sensitive electronics in 24/7 and just leave it if it's not got some level of protection against power line anomalies ... and that includes our trailer, whether parked here at the house or out camping. ;)