Sine Wave Inverter Anomaly
After following this recent discussion about how to best utilize a sine wave inverter for RV use I decided to go ahead and buy the 1000 watt model mentioned in this discussion since it was on sale for...
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road-runner wrote:
EMS as defined by Progressive Industries = Electrical Management System
"Progressive Industries Portable Electrical Management Systems (EMS) provide full RV protection against all adverse power conditions." , what is commonly called a "surge protector". It does not manage energy use.
EMS as defined by the rest of the world = Energy Management System, manages loads to keep circuits from overloading.
I believe the "open ground" discussion in this thread is related to the unfortunately named Progressive Industries EMS, which is really a "surge protector", another bad name for a power quality monitoring and protection device. Nothing to do with the other EMS, Energy Management System.
Your "power quality monitoring and protection device" probably best describes it.
It does not manage loads but is more than a basic surge protector.
Anyway, the transfer switch/relay I'm installing will do what Mr Wizard recommends, bypassing the EMS.
