PI EMS-HW30C Installation Question

dmullen wrote:
I was about to install a Furrion Conversion Kit to eliminate my mouse hole and thought this would be a good time to also install a Progressive Industries EMS-HW30C surge protector. I have about 8 inches of slack coming out of the mouse hole where I cut off the power cable. I will wire the cut end of the power cable into the back of the conversion kit outlet which replaces the mouse hole door so that I can now have a detachable power cable. I would then cut the power cable again and wire it to the input of the EMS-HW30C and then wire the other end of the power cable to the output of the EMS-HW30C. Would this be a proper and sound install?

That is correct. Also, it's always good to leave some slack at each entry/exit to an enclosure in case something gets changed in the future or needs to be repaired.

You likely have the stranded cable going directly to the converter panel now, but if it happens to be spliced to solid, connect to the terminals on the EMC with stranded wire (use piece of #10 shore power cable) rather than solid wire. There was a post earlier this year about someone who had overheating problems with the connections to terminals (with solid wire) and it may have been due to the way the terminal is designed. With a solid wire, you only get two positive connection points to the terminal as shown in the photo below. With stranded wire, there will be a greater surface area spread out between wire and terminal. You can do a splice inside the EMS. For the best splice if one or both are stranded, solder the wires together and use a wire nut like in the 2nd photo or use shrink tubing.

If you already have stranded #10 all the way to the converter panel, you don't have to worry about the above as long as you maintain stranded wire in and out of the EMS.

With the incoming and outgoing ground wires, connect them directly together, then with a separate ground wire to the grounding terminal in the enclosure.