Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #25 – March 07, 2016, 05:41:27 pm The camp ground owner needs to talk to the power company and get some voltage recorders installed. Maybe then they could figure out why the spikes. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #26 – March 07, 2016, 06:57:43 pm My guess is they know what and why the spikes happen - they may not know when or how to adequately control. CostsBrad - I think you were lucky to get any info. Quote Selected
Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #27 – March 07, 2016, 08:01:50 pm Brad, this scares the dickens out of me! My old girl isn't gonna be plugged in anywhere again til she gets to Paul Yasbeck's in a couple of weeks, for installation of the Progressive high end protector...(as well as 2 new house batteries & a new inverter, among other things). Boy, have I been lucky up to now! By the way, at the Tampa Super Show we had very erratic electric for the first day or two, lot of people just unplugged, power kept going off & on and spiking, up/down, lucky nobody got hit badly. (that I know of) Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #28 – March 07, 2016, 08:06:30 pm Fortunately what is occurring in Brad's CG does not happen often. Surge protection is important. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #29 – March 07, 2016, 09:43:52 pm Important -- that is an understatement . The very first clue that something was going on was the day before my surge protector started to do it's thing , the ground fault receptacle tripped for the first time ever . This sent me into a tail spin since I didn't know where the reset receptacle was . Turns out it was located in Phyllis's potty room . Got that done and feeling a bit sheepish about it . Today I see a number of folks in SOB's hooking up surge protectors . One guy came up to me saying , "you better go buy one or you'll pay big like I am doing ". I smiled and said I'll have to send home for money . Life goes on . Things were much better today after about 10:00 am , Shows 124 and 123 which is good . Something I saw from the interstate was a really large field of solar panels , maybe 5 acres or so . By far the largest layout I have ever seen . Maybe this is where all that extra electricity came from . ? Just checked again , now shows 112 and 113 , darn , just when I thought all had settled down this low reading shows up . Darn twice and several thoughts a might stronger . Brad Metzger Quote Selected 4 Likes
Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #30 – March 08, 2016, 11:06:40 am Surge protection is not the only thing we need to guard against. Low voltage will slowly destroy our electric motors as sure as a surge, just over time instead of 1 big blast. That is why I love my Progressive EMS 50 portable because it checks for many things, including low voltage. While in Pio Pico near San Diego this January, we came home our last evening and found the microwave blinking- power had been off. While looking at it, power went off again. I went out to check the reading on my EMS and it showed voltage of 101- I shut it off and went into boon docking mode that night. Complained the next day as we left- like talking to a politician......lol.Watch out when you plug in- bad electric hook ups cost $$$$Cya down the road Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #31 – March 08, 2016, 11:16:25 am Right on Ted! The reason why I like the Progressive EMS, it shows you what is going on and protection for both high and low voltage. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: High spike voltage ! Reply #32 – March 08, 2016, 11:49:18 am Glad I just got this, trying to read it in sunlite is daunting. After our near-miss "FRY", it's cheap insurance!Update: the instrument makes a reassuring "clunk" when the delay is over. Quote Selected 1 Likes
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