Electrical management system

Another Vote for Progressive Industries. I ordered a 30 amp hardwired model and experienced a MINOR annoyance sound issue, asked a few qts on another thread here and the folks told me to contact Tech Service. Spoke to Anthony, he sent me a new part in less than 3 days, issue solved. Can't say enough about their customer service. No waiting on hold, no run around, just great service.

tnrv'er wrote:
Thanks for the education fellas. We just ordered the Progressive PT30C

You're welcome :) and I'm sure you'll be quite impressed with your new Progressive EMS-PT30C. :B

Thanks for the education fellas. We just ordered the Progressive PT30C

IAMICHABOD wrote:
Have to agree with Bumpy,an EMS is really good and cheap insurance, if you factor in loosing some of your electronics on your RV.

Progressive Industries is the best on the market,American made and a Lifetime Warranty.

ljr wrote:
The warranty is fantastic! I have two and both have been repaired or replaced several times. Always promptly and without question. They are very suseptible to moisture. That would be a show stopper without the great warranty service.

The portable Progressive Industries EMS units are really well sealed but certainly not infallible if exposed to the elements over the long term and that's where that lifetime warranty really helps. Obviously this isn't an issue with the hard wire models which are intended to be installed inside the rig somewhere. However, the hard wire versions offer another advantage rarely mentioned in these discussions - they're field serviceable, meaning that if it fails you don't have to mail it in for repair. Rather, just call Progressive and they'll mail you out by USPS the repair part that you can install yourself. This is a particular advantage for those of us who don't live in the US as it means we don't have to deal with all the attendant cross border shipping issues.

The portable versions are certainly the most convenient to use but for me the hard wire version was the better choice. :B

IAMICHABOD wrote:
Have to agree with Bumpy,an EMS is really good and cheap insurance, if you factor in loosing some of your electronics on your RV.

Progressive Industries is the best on the market,American made and a Lifetime Warranty.

The warranty is fantastic! I have two and both have been repaired or replaced several times. Always promptly and without question. They are very suseptible to moisture. That would be a show stopper without the great warranty service.

well I emailed the co and asked about this, why, when. I assume that they either added it to the unit to make it better/more competitive or deleted it to make it cheaper?
will post if/when I hear back.
bumpy

Thanks for this tread, and those of you that posted, this is a issue I hadn't even considered. I'm ordering the EMS-Pt50C.

Bumpyroad wrote:
my key hole is in the center where yours says "voltage". other than that looks exactly the same.
bumpy

Interesting, as both mine and yours are earlier versions which were later supplanted by the #34730-001 which had the LCD display on the front panel, which in turn has now been replaced by the current #34830 with additional features. My #34730 certainly never had any key bypass, nor do any of the current models, so I can only guess yours was perhaps the earliest version and that this key switch as you described it was dropped long ago.

SoundGuy wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
Well I have sitting in front of me my Surge Guard RV Power Monitor TRC technology research corp, clearwater, florida Model 34730 that has a key switch on it with ON and Bypass settings.
perhaps they offered a different one in Canada?

Well here's a pic of my TRC #34730 and I sure don't see any key switch nor do I remember there being one - sold the unit last year so I can't check now.

my key hole is in the center where yours says "voltage". other than that looks exactly the same.
bumpy

Bumpyroad wrote:
Well I have sitting in front of me my Surge Guard RV Power Monitor TRC technology research corp, clearwater, florida Model 34730 that has a key switch on it with ON and Bypass settings.
perhaps they offered a different one in Canada?

Well here's a pic of my TRC #34730 and I sure don't see any key switch nor do I remember there being one - sold the unit last year so I can't check now.