Surge protectors, for rv.

ol Bombero-JC wrote:

Mandalay Parr wrote:
The good ones are expensive. So is replacing all of your appliances if things go wrong..

I suggest Progressive Industries. They have lifetime warranty and good specs. Buy the best one they have. You will have it a long time and you will be happy with it.

What he said..;)

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"So is replacing all of your appliances if things go wrong"
(Even if somebody else is on the hook!)

My all time favorite thread for the need for surge protection (preferably PI)........

The Electrician said "Oops!"..:(..:E

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I was on the fence about going hard wired or plug in....I eventually went plug in due to me setting up in a site only to find that the power did not work... My Progressive Industries unit gets plugged in at the pedestal prior to backing into a site. We let it run through its whole cycle before we move on with setup. We are extremely happy with ours.

Cale

We have the portable 30 amp Surgeguard and it saved us once in Maine right after an electrical storm. When it shut down our electricity, I took a voltmeter reading at the pedestal and the A/C voltage was 150 volts! The two rigs on either side of us had their plasma TVs burn out + their invertors. Inside our rig I have a plug-in A/C monitor that shows voltage and beeps with error codes for various electrical problems, including high and low voltage.
I can see the A/C voltage at all times, so I know when the park has low voltage where I can't run the micro and other appliances at the same time.

As someone said, Amazon and E-bay are your friends.

I will caution you on one thing.. progressive Industries makes basically two types of protectors One type has an LCD display and shows voltage current and error code... This one may be a one-piece plug in unit or a 2-piece hard wired with remote display... But It is the one you want.

The other type has no LCD, just a few indicator leds. It is much cheaper but it is NOT the one you want.. This one is a Spike Suppressor only. A true SURGE (Sustained high voltage) will blow up the devices inside it (Sounds like firecrackers no secondary damage however, Trust me, been there when it happened) and they offer absolutely no low voltage protection.

You can also get hard wired boxes that provide this level of protection (I have one) ( I have an LCD type as well ).

But avoid the ones without an LCD display.

Mandalay Parr wrote:
The good ones are expensive. So is replacing all of your appliances if things go wrong..

I suggest Progressive Industries. They have lifetime warranty and good specs. Buy the best one they have. You will have it a long time and you will be happy with it.

What he said..;)

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xaugievike wrote:
the portable EMS has appealed to me for a couple years (currently have the progressive surge only). I like the idea of not wiring in and being able to easily move to another rig

My PI HW50C was installed without cutting any wires and hence easy to remove. Installing the remote did involve drilling some holes to bring the cable inside the house.

So relative easy to move to a new rig as I've done once. I like the idea of out of sight and always connected.

dbates wrote:
bumpy,

Both Progressives hardwired 30 & 50 Amp units have bypasses.
It appears that only SurgeGuard's 50 Amp unit has a bypass.

Dave

my old surgeguard 30 amp unit had a key operated bypass and it was a portable? surprised that the hard wired don't.
bumpy

bumpy,

Both Progressives hardwired 30 & 50 Amp units have bypasses.
It appears that only SurgeGuard's 50 Amp unit has a bypass.

Dave

xaugievike wrote:
the portable EMS has appealed to me for a couple years (currently have the progressive surge only). I like the idea of not wiring in and being able to easily move to another rig

yep, that is what I have/do. when I had my MH I kept it in a basement compartment and just ran an extension cord to the post. out of sight out of mind. in the TT I epoxied a padlock hasp to the side and lock that to the post.
bumpy

the portable EMS has appealed to me for a couple years (currently have the progressive surge only). I like the idea of not wiring in and being able to easily move to another rig