Thank heaven for surge protection!
Was gone from the camper for a couple days and missed all the excitement! Neighbors tell me the campground experienced a large electrical surge. They lost tvs, small appliances, AC units, etc.. I lost...
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john&bet wrote:
Food for thought, do you have one on your sticks and bricks house? If not why not. The same can and does happen to them. Just saying.
RV camps are more prone to power issues, long runs of wire/power at low voltages. (Most houses just have a 100' drop of 240 pwr (200amps), from the 14k lines., RV parks ususally have many hundreds of feet (voltage drop) and huge loads if everyone is maxing their circuit. And think of all the flucutations, just in the park, every time someones AC kicks in, or a rig plugs or unplugs, that spike radiates all the way back to the transformer and like a wave hits all the circuits connected.
(house wise) Being in the lightning capital of the US, lightning alley, all my electronics have a computer grade battery backup/UPS. Great for the 1/2 second outages during strikes. And cheap insurance for direct strikes. (our cable modem is fried/replaced yearly)
