Surge protection INSIDE the camper?
I recently had a problem that cost me my converter, microwave, television, vcr and the sound system. I am lucky the refrigerator and a/c's weren't damaged. Yes I do have a surge protector at the outl...
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westom wrote:
But protector that can protect from that anomaly must be connected low impedance (as short as possible) to earth ground. That means connected at the pole.
I am not an electronics guy, so this is not an argument, but a request for information. Does your sentence above mean that the EMS needs to be directly earth grounded at the pole? Are any of the portable EMS units equipped to be directly earth grounded? Aren't they all only grounded through the ground pin that goes back to the main breaker panel where they are then earth grounded? If that is so, then your assertion that the unit mounted at the pole offers additional protection over the hard wired units is false.
Or, am I misunderstanding what you said?
