Surge protection INSIDE the camper?
I recently had a problem that cost me my converter, microwave, television, vcr and the sound system. I am lucky the refrigerator and a/c's weren't damaged. Yes I do have a surge protector at the outl...
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SoundGuy wrote:
... regardless of whether it's a portable or hard wire version the best place to wire in an EMS is where the main service cable feeds the trailer's converter input buss bar. That's usually quite easy to do - inside the trailer just locate where the main service cable enters the trailer, cut the cable, and wire in the EMS
Almot wrote:
Uh-huh... Under the fridge, in a 12" tall, 26" long rabbit hole off the floor. Behind the converter. Sure, easy ;)...
But... - yes, this is the best place.
That's exactly where my converter is. In my case a few feet of 10 gauge cable feeding the converter input ran over to a junction box where the main service cable entered the trailer so that's where I wired in my EMS. Alternately, if I had insisted on wiring it in right at the converter I'd have simply removed four screws and pulled it forward out of it's nest in order to access the back side - no biggie at all. :B
