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CT_WANDERER
Jul 29, 2015Explorer
chuckbear wrote:GMandJM wrote:
We have a plug-in surge guard in addition to our on-board EMS system. As said above, the surge guard also checks for open ground and monitors for low voltage.
RVers might use these more often than boaters because we probably have more/different equipment on our RVs than would normally be on a boat- air conditioners, residential fridges, a computer or two, flat screen TVs, microwaves and the like.
All of those things and many more are found on boats. Which is why I ask. In addition, on a boat we have considerably more electronics, chartplotters, navigation computers, HF and VHF radios, Autopilots, weather and engine monitors, all interconnected, and then we have to deal with grounding all the systems so as to not have a problem with electrolysis. Chuck
Chuck, I believe that most of the systems you talk about run off the battery power. We are concerned with the systems that need shore power, so many use some sort of surge protection.
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