Power Protection Device, Do you?

pnichols wrote:
....However, as I understand it some campgrounds don't like - or allow if they know about it - autoformers because they take more current from campground circuits in order to keep the voltage high for the individual autoformer owner. Maintaining the total energy for the autoformer owner's RV has to come from somewhere and total energy comes from a combination of both voltage and current.

voltage regulators DO NOT drawl more current from the campground !
voltage regulators can not drawl more power then the source supplies or limits thru the breaker.

voltage regulators multiply or reduce the incoming voltage via transformer windings and the stabilize the voltage from the source/pedestal (reducing peaks and valleys).

Bumpyroad wrote:

pnichols wrote:


A person should use either the PI to save money and have at least some raw protection - or spring for the $$$ and really do it right with an autoformer.

are you saying that an autoformer by itself will protect against all of the things that a multi-function surge protector will? If not a SP would be my initial purchase and if I kept running into "puny" electricity at the campgrounds I stay at, add the autoformer.
bumpy

the voltage regulators do not protect from polarity or wiring issues.

the voltage regulators do have some surge protection but they don't protect you from an open ground and i don't believe they would protect from 220v wiring.