EMS Installation Question
When installing a Progressive Industries EMS-HW30C are there any negatives to completely removing the heavy shore power cable and just use romex from the plug to the input of the EMS and then wire in ...
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Whatever you end up doing, I recommend against connecting #10 solid wire directly to the lugs of the EMS and only use stranded. This is a photo of our EMS before I changed to stranded. You can see that the solid wire only contacts flat (or near flat) surfaces of the lugs on two opposite sides of the round copper #10 wire and IMO does not provide enough surface contact area between the wire and lug. I have read of a number of instances of an EMS overheating and in some cases, a fire and I suspect that the design of the lug could be a factor when terminating solid wire.
The better way to terminate the incoming #10 wire (shore power) is to use stranded and if needed, you can splice a short lengths of stranded to solid inside the EMS. For splicing stranded to copper, I recommend using vibration resistant wire connectors as they make a more reliable connection.
You could run stranded #10 from the EMS to detachable cord outlet using a length of your old cord.
FWIW, I also converted to a detachable shore power cord (on a previous TT) and ended with an empty box where the cord used to get shoved into. Turned it into much needed extra storage space which was a nice bonus to the project.
The better way to terminate the incoming #10 wire (shore power) is to use stranded and if needed, you can splice a short lengths of stranded to solid inside the EMS. For splicing stranded to copper, I recommend using vibration resistant wire connectors as they make a more reliable connection.
You could run stranded #10 from the EMS to detachable cord outlet using a length of your old cord.
FWIW, I also converted to a detachable shore power cord (on a previous TT) and ended with an empty box where the cord used to get shoved into. Turned it into much needed extra storage space which was a nice bonus to the project.
