Surge protectors

I'd choose the PI HW 50C.

Progressive Industries without a doubt. I've had 2 SurgeGuards and both failed, one rather spectacularly. Won't have another. And the PI I have works very well.

Have you considered an autoformer with surge protection?

Another vote for Progressive Industries EMS-PT50X.

PI here. It's not even close. (Mine has been in service problem free since 2007.)

Rubber Ducky1 wrote:
If you had to choose between a Progressive Industries EMS-PT50X and a Southwire Surge Guard 34950 which would you buy? I'm on a seasonal sight so I'm plugged into campground shore power 24/7.

Depends.. The Southwire has a 1 year warranty.. Last I checked (And this MAY have changed) the PI unit had a limited lifetime warranty (Limited to the original purchaser) Thus if I had my choice.. The PI.

However since the sale price on the Southwire was around half the cost of the PI unit when I bought it.. went with the Southwire + reomte.

my first southwire was a plug in (portale) I got basically free with a bad outlet.. I fixed the outlet and it worked fine for quite some time then one day.. NO POWER

The new one is a hard wired with remote but.... Due to the nature of my electrical set up I converted it to a plug in (used the plug and socket off the old one) Only problem I've had to date is with the socket and that was easily fixed. Oh and the Southwire is easier to install.

EMS-PT50X

wa8yxm wrote:
Last I checked (And this MAY have changed) the PI unit had a limited lifetime warranty . . .

That changed when Southwire bought Surge Guard a couple years ago. Now both Southwire and Progressive have limited lifetime warranties.

Progressive was also bought by another company. After the buy outs, Progressive service and warranty went down and Southwire's went up.

I'd go with Southwire now.

I have a 50A in house Progressive. Don't know about the others, but when I purchased mine in 2012 then installed it: Well I would not be without it. Saved me a couple of times.

TechWriter wrote:

wa8yxm wrote:
Last I checked (And this MAY have changed) the PI unit had a limited lifetime warranty . . .

That changed when Southwire bought Surge Guard a couple years ago. Now both Southwire and Progressive have limited lifetime warranties.

Progressive was also bought by another company. After the buy outs, Progressive service and warranty went down and Southwire's went up.

I'd go with Southwire now.

https://www.park-power.com/en/news/progressive-announcement

also Blue Sea mentioned in there as one of their brands.