Generator and Surge guard
Question for everyone who uses an inverter generator. Do you use a surge guard when running a generator or is it not neccessary? Reason why I know many of you use one to protect a/c from low voltage...
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SoundGuy wrote:
It's good to hear that Winged One isn't having this issue with his Yamaha EF3000iSEB and to date it's not caused any problems with his EMS-HW50C, indicating this may be an anomaly with just the EF2000iS.
Winged One wrote:
Brings up a question. Should I just turn off the EMS when using the generator. Any real risk from the power generated by the Yamaha?
Switching your hard wire Progressive EMS to bypass still leaves the surge protection portion of the device active and unfortunately it's that circuit which is most susceptible to damage from a non-sinusoidal waveform so the only way to truly protect it is to remove it entirely. However, since Progressive mentions only the Yamaha EF2000is as potentially having a waveform issue & not your EF3000iSEB, and you've been successfully doing this for 3 yrs now with no apparent problems, I'd be inclined to just continue on with what you've been doing.
