Hi rockhillmanor,
If you quote the whole statement it makes it clear that I always check the pedestal under load before I plug in. It is lovely how folks can choose what to quote, but sometimes it allows folks to be mislead.
If you read my signature it says I full time, so I do lots of checking, just that I'm a little more careful--because I check with a load on the outlet.
The low voltage damage to electric motors is invisible and cumulative. Air conditioners don't come cheap.
Low voltage happens in almost every campsite I visit. Hence the reference to correcting that with an autoformer.
rockhillmanor wrote:
I've never come across high voltage. I've never come across incorrectly wired outlets. I have also not seen a bad neutral-
I love this statement when we start talking electrical protection for our RV's.
The ole "I have not seen it so it can't be there syndrome".
It is all relevant to HOW you RV.
I.E. The person who goes out once a year during a vacation, the occasional weekend warrior, snowird, full time. The MORE often you RV the more shore stations with problems you will encounter.
A full timer will stay at a whole lot more CG's in a year than the vacationer or weekend warrior. We use HUNDREDS of CG shore stations a year!
Here to tell you there are MANY that are wired wrong, missing ground wires etc. Not to mention the erratic and/or inappropriate electric coming into the CG's.
It's just a matter of time and happenstance that the other less traveled RV'ers will hit one of the same ones that we have that are wrong and can damage your RV.
I think it's a 'dis-service to the new Rv'ers who read this forum' to tell them that there are no shore stations that are wired wrong and that all electric coming into a CG is safe and that they don't need a surge protector and/or they don't need to check the pedestal before hooking up. Just saying.
