Protect your expensive electronics
Last year, the park I stay in had several electrical issues. I know of a fried microwave, 2 fridges, and a inverter fire. This year so far, 2 more fridges and a TV. It's well known that there are big...
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bid_time wrote:
In 15 years of camping I have never had an electrical issue.
Correction - you only think you've never had "an electrical issue" because it's not resulted in immediate and catastrophic failure. Fact is, that's what often happens, goes unnoticed, but that doesn't mean an event didn't happen nor that it didn't result in accumulating damage that will eventually result in equipment failure. The reality is that source power anomalies are FAR more common than most realize, with spikes and surges taking as little as nanoseconds to milliseconds to occur ... and you're going to notice that? An EMS will - not only "notice" it but also take appropriate action, sending excessive spikes and surges to ground, disconnecting power completely for a variety of other line anomalies such as low or high voltage, pedestal wiring errors, loss of ground, etc, etc. I too ran for years without any "protection" but now I know better and wouldn't ever considering plugging in, whether camping or when parked here at home, without EMS protection.
And to answer the question about home electronics - yes, I do now also use surge protection in the stick house, unfortunately AFTER a line surge took out our unprotected television set last year. :M
