Surge protection
I bought a brand new Jayco 5th wheel and have everything now set up the way I want it. We've also owned a couple of travel trailers and never installed a surge protector in any of them and have never ...
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IBcarguy wrote:
I just did a search...man, there are a lot of choices. Surge protector or EMS? Portable or hardwired? $100 or $300+? 30amp or 50amp?
The idea here is to protect....so I guess the EMS is the better choice, hardwired is "install it and forget about it" rather than set it up each time I hook up.
Decisions...decisions.
Soon after I installed my EMS, I found two campgrounds with miswired posts. Scary really. On one, the 30A part was miswired but the 15A ok, so we used that and didn't have to move.
The other was a Canadian National Park where the electricians just wired up a new section of the campground ... and got it wrong. We moved to an older section that was wired right, and reported the problem. The next day I saw the electricians re-working the new section and testing posts all over the campground.
