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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Bobbo wrote:
Does your sentence above mean that the EMS needs to be directly earth grounded at the pole?
Of so many anomalies, this anomaly must make a low impedance connection to earth. Impedance is defined mostly by wire length (not wire thickness). To be effective, distance to earth ground must be as short as possible. If that protector is inside a camper, then a better (low impedance) path to earth might be via camper electronics.
Other anomalies are typically averted by something that can reply in milliseconds. This anomaly requires nanoseconds response. Nanoseconds says why that connection to earth must be so short (and other electrical requirements).
For same reasons, a plug-in protector also does not claim to protect from this anomaly. It may be promoted subjectively to do so. But where honestly must always exists (ie specifications), it does not claim such protection.
This anomaly is less frequent than other campground anomalies. So many protectors do not (need not) address it.
