What's left of Our Progressive EMS Unit
This is whats our EMS unit looks like after our last excursion. The box got fried. Bought it in 2009 and it has worked flawlessly up until a couple of weeks ago. No I don't know what or how, but it saved the electrical of the 5er.
As usual I checked the pedestal with our volt meter & polarity gage and all was good. Plugged the power cord in, the EMS unit clicked on, the remote showed 121 volts, 3 amps, 60 HTZ and E O but no electricity to the RV. After about 2 minutes, electricity came on through out the RV and then went off after about 30 seconds but the EMS was still showing 121 volts, 3 amps, 60 htz and E O. This repeated over & over for about 1/2 hr. Worried, I opened the cabinet and found the unit had melted and a light colored indention on the cover was extremely hot to the touch (couldn't touch finger to it for more than a second) and the wires on the RV side, the insulation was burnt and melted to the copper wire for about 1 inch up the wire. I disconnected the unit and removed it and put the junction box back in and reconnected the power cord wires to the RV wires. All worked except no EMS unit protecting the 5er.
Low & behold.... Progressive Industries has denied our warranty claim... go figure. They didn't even ask to send the unit to them, only asked for a description of the issue & a picture.
Lifetime warranty? :h
As usual I checked the pedestal with our volt meter & polarity gage and all was good. Plugged the power cord in, the EMS unit clicked on, the remote showed 121 volts, 3 amps, 60 HTZ and E O but no electricity to the RV. After about 2 minutes, electricity came on through out the RV and then went off after about 30 seconds but the EMS was still showing 121 volts, 3 amps, 60 htz and E O. This repeated over & over for about 1/2 hr. Worried, I opened the cabinet and found the unit had melted and a light colored indention on the cover was extremely hot to the touch (couldn't touch finger to it for more than a second) and the wires on the RV side, the insulation was burnt and melted to the copper wire for about 1 inch up the wire. I disconnected the unit and removed it and put the junction box back in and reconnected the power cord wires to the RV wires. All worked except no EMS unit protecting the 5er.
Low & behold.... Progressive Industries has denied our warranty claim... go figure. They didn't even ask to send the unit to them, only asked for a description of the issue & a picture.
Lifetime warranty? :h
