Surge Protectors

[Jon Wehrenberg]

I have the one Terry bought. I am not sure any of us knows which is best.

Having one that tells the status of the power, such as faulty ground is a nice thing, but what I want one for is to stop a power surge from toasting my wiring, even if it sacrifices itself.

Bottom line is the features of the different types may be nice, but the protection against lightning or surges is critical and until we have had that happen all we can do is hope they work. Like airbags in a car.

[truk4u]

I have the same as Terry and Jon, seems the more expensive one had it's share of problems and many had to send them back. I know Paul had trouble and Jdub tells me Sponge Bob bought insurance for his!

[PLSNTVLE2]

Good point Gary. I will check further on the Millennium installed surge protector.

I do know that when I plug into shore power, the Millennium curcuit breaker has a light that shows as a warning if reverse polarity exist.

As Jon mentioned, this is mainly to protect against a lightening strikes and careless utility people.

[Sid Tuls]

Just received my new surge protector from Progressive but heres my question-when you plug your shore cord into the protector it takes about 3-4 minutes to go from inverter mode to shore mode is this how it suppose to work? Thanks

[JIM KELLER]

Sid, Yes. The Progressive unit needs several minutes to check the perimeters in voltage, amperage and frequency. If everything is O.K. it will let you have power. If not you get an error code. Good unit and they stand behind their product. Be sure to keep the box it came in.

[Ray Davis]

As Jim said, that's perfectly fine. But, I think there is a secondary reason, besides checking everything. And that's in case of a power failure, and restart, it allows several minutes so that your A/C compressors can bleed off pressure, preventing an issue trying to start a compressor that is already loaded.

Ray

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Even without the delay provided by a surge protector our systems in our buses likely have the required delays built in.

For example, my Cruise Airs count down before starting. My inverters when powered up have a delay of several seconds and then ramp up slowly. My transfer switch has a delay.

Still, it does not hurt to have the added protection, but nobody needs to run out to get one thinking the delay the surge protector provides is required. Its purpose is to protect against miswired applications and surges such as caused by lightning strikes.

[rmboies]

Good point Gary. I will check further on the Millennium installed surge protector.
I do know that when I plug into shore power, the Millennium curcuit breaker has a light that shows as a warning if reverse polarity exist.

Hey Terry and Chris, hope you both are doing well. Here is a message from Bob-??

"Terry, I thought that Millennium had a built in a surge protector as well. But when I took the cover off in my '05, there was nothing there but the switch. I would suggest checking yours just to be safe. Bob"

[GDeen]

The PT50C has a small light in the lower right hand corner of the display which is illuminated while it is in the delay mode. You can actually hear it switch on if you are nearby.

[PLSNTVLE2]

Hi Debi,
Thanks for forwarding that information from Bob.
I have not checked it yet but my guess is that it is the same as yours. I think it is just a curcuit breaker with a reverse polaity indicator.

The added surge protector is in my opinion a must have.

Yes we are doing great, thanks for asking. Hope everything in SC is wonderful and we hope to see you soon.