devices for surge protection
Hi, If I add a MOV type device in parallel to the shore power cord will it offer some down stream protection to my RV?
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Hi Mex,
Perhaps because I'm a piano tuner? I research as well as I can. I try to give honest answers. I protect what I can within my (limited) budget. I buy the best quality I can within that budget. When I find something that works, I share it with others.
In an ideal world, my RV would have 1600 watts of solar and 1000 amp-hours of battery bank. In a possible world that would have to be only 556 amp-hours of storage. In a world with a budget, I spent 1700 bucks in 2005 to get 256 watts of solar which works exactly as planned and continues to do so.
What is changed is that I became a full time RV'er. Today that 1700 would buy me 850 watts of solar materials--but to be able to install that I'd have to add an aluminum rack covering the entire roof. That, including 1600 watts of solar would cost about 6 grand. At $1.25 per liter (for premium fuel) I can get 4800 liters which would fill the generator 370 times. At 1/4 load that is 6000 hours of run time. The economics (for me) just don't work.
Since my full time days may end in 4 years, pay back is not really possible.
I'm in serious danger of becoming a "power pole princess".
T.S. Elliot describes me well.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
Perhaps because I'm a piano tuner? I research as well as I can. I try to give honest answers. I protect what I can within my (limited) budget. I buy the best quality I can within that budget. When I find something that works, I share it with others.
In an ideal world, my RV would have 1600 watts of solar and 1000 amp-hours of battery bank. In a possible world that would have to be only 556 amp-hours of storage. In a world with a budget, I spent 1700 bucks in 2005 to get 256 watts of solar which works exactly as planned and continues to do so.
What is changed is that I became a full time RV'er. Today that 1700 would buy me 850 watts of solar materials--but to be able to install that I'd have to add an aluminum rack covering the entire roof. That, including 1600 watts of solar would cost about 6 grand. At $1.25 per liter (for premium fuel) I can get 4800 liters which would fill the generator 370 times. At 1/4 load that is 6000 hours of run time. The economics (for me) just don't work.
Since my full time days may end in 4 years, pay back is not really possible.
I'm in serious danger of becoming a "power pole princess".
T.S. Elliot describes me well.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
