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A surge protector/EMS would have saved me a lot of money if I'd got off my backside and installed one in time.
During our trip this year, we stayed with a friend and he had wired up an extension cord to run from the 50A socket that powers his wife's pottery kiln to a 30A plug to plug our rig into for the night. So I plugged our lead into his extension cord and when I turned the aircon on, it kind of groaned and ran for about 20 seconds and then stopped.
Later on I discovered that our power converter was no longer working, and our blu-ray player was DOA too. No biggies about the blu-ray, but it cost me $300 for a new converter. If I'd had the surge/EMS installed as I had planned to do, i wouldn't have had to replace my converter. I figured out later that he might have swapped the active and neutral in the extension lead. The EMS would have detected that and not allowed the connection.
We live and learn...
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