Surge Protector Scorched
Hi folks - hope this is the right forum for this? I have a 30A surge protector. This weekend while it was in use the power company (not the campground) did a power failure. I started hearing arcing...
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pianotuna wrote:
Since the campground pays by the kilowatt hour, an autoformer is going to use a tiny bit more.
The pedestal amperage is still capped at the same level before the breaker pops, you aren't going to jump to using 36amps because you have an autoformer (yeah, continuous rating is 80% of nominal feel free to do the math but same principal).
Only time the autoformer should kick into boost mode is if the park is not providing adequate voltage, then yes, you get to keep using the electricity you paid for when otherwise, a smart person would kill the pedestal breaker so as not to damage the rig and by default you zero KWH...I don't feel too bad using more KWH by using the autoformer in those conditions.
