Keeping Ems from walking off

[Krg2383]

I'm heading out in a few weeks on a trip to an area I'm not to familiar with. The sites are close together. I have a portable progressive ems. What do you guys use to keep yours from walking off while not at the site?

[wiredgeorge]

Originally Posted by Krg2383

I'm heading out in a few weeks on a trip to an area I'm not to familiar with. The sites are close together. I have a portable progressive ems. What do you guys use to keep yours from walking off while not at the site?

If I want to steal your EMS or your whole camper and I am a real thief, I can do it. Best you can do with your EMS is to buy a cable bike lock and run it through the fitting provided for such a lock. This will discourage casual theft. I have a bike lock I use with my EMS when camping in an unknown campground and have the combination with a magic marker in a place I can easily find it when I do forget the combo. Not much else can be done other than sit in a lawn chair with a baseball bat next to the power pedestal.

[travelin texans]

We used ours daily for 10+ years in all types of privately owned parks & national/state/county/city campgrounds with nothing locking it in place & it never once walked away. But if you feel the need a bike lock is an easy cure.
I've had so many fellow rvers ask what it was & from their responses seemed almost afraid to touch it or get near it, so maybe that's a deterrent itself. Most people have been taught to stay from large power cords laying on the ground.

[LewisB]

We've never had a problem with ours. Maybe the "Security by Smith & Wesson" sticker helps - who'se to say.

[sourdough]

I carry a supply of these to place by the ems :

https://looserounds.com/wp-content/u...-1024x768.jpeg

Actually, I've never had anyone offer to bother my ems ever, unsecured, in all my years of having one. The most attention it has ever drawn was on my last trip; some wacky individual installed the 50A plug upside down so I had to plug the ems into it...upside down then I covered the ems, breaker box and top of ped with a black trash bag; now some folks DID look at that.

[chuckster57]

Danny, I like that. I should get a couple for my orange tree in the front yard. Seems people start taking them months before they are sweet and then get mad and throw them on my driveway.

[Brantlyj]

If you have the means install a permanent one. One less thing to remember to pack and find a place for. Won’t get lost and walk away.

[jvbutter01]

My EMS has a cable hole, as does my cord to the trailer... I just got a simple chain n lock that I have in the garage. I connects the ems to the cord. If they really want it, they can bring cable cutters and cut my cord, or the chain. This only protects me from the impulse thieves.

[chuckster57]

My EMS is hardwired with remote display. No walking out to the pedestal to read any trouble codes, but having ANY EMS is better than not having anything.

[Johnnyfry]

I have never had a problem. I use the security loop with a bicycle lock and I also close the box cover and run the lock cable through the cover lock. They would pretty much have to cut the line cable to the box, making the unit useless, at least for immediate use.

[Ken / Claudia]

I would knee cap all of it's knees. That would make it crawl away.

[wiredgeorge]

Originally Posted by chuckster57

My EMS is hardwired with remote display. No walking out to the pedestal to read any trouble codes, but having ANY EMS is better than not having anything.

OK... you hardwire it and go sniffing around for a NEW TO YOU camper and have to uninstall to take it with you? Portable rules, especially if you change campers fairly regularly. I know when my PORTABLE EMS cuts power off to the trailer as my A/C stops running; don't need some app for that!

[skids]

Originally Posted by sourdough

I carry a supply of these to place by the ems :

https://looserounds.com/wp-content/u...-1024x768.jpeg

Actually, I've never had anyone offer to bother my ems ever, unsecured, in all my years of having one. The most attention it has ever drawn was on my last trip; some wacky individual installed the 50A plug upside down so I had to plug the ems into it...upside down then I covered the ems, breaker box and top of ped with a black trash bag; now some folks DID look at that.

LOL! Gotta love those claymore mines.

[chuckster57]

Originally Posted by wiredgeorge

OK... you hardwire it and go sniffing around for a NEW TO YOU camper and have to uninstall to take it with you? Portable rules, especially if you change campers fairly regularly. I know when my PORTABLE EMS cuts power off to the trailer as my A/C stops running; don't need some app for that!

I tend to keep things. Last fiver-13 1/2 yrs. this one- 8 and counting. 30 minutes to remove? drop in the bucket, to each his own

[Summergirl]

We purchased a cable lock that has an alarm if the cable is cut.

[mbi777]

Originally Posted by Summergirl

We purchased a cable lock that has an alarm if the cable is cut.

Nice! Which one do you have???

[Alpine]

Just a short piece of thick chain with lock... to go around power pedestal.

[Javi]

Originally Posted by wiredgeorge

OK... you hardwire it and go sniffing around for a NEW TO YOU camper and have to uninstall to take it with you? Portable rules, especially if you change campers fairly regularly. I know when my PORTABLE EMS cuts power off to the trailer as my A/C stops running; don't need some app for that!

I've left the last two EMS in the trailer when I sold them, the first one after 4 years and this last one after 6 years... in the greater scheme of things, they aren't that expensive and helped me get top dollar for the sale.

[hornet28]

Ok I'm clueless. What's an EMS?

[jvbutter01]

Originally Posted by hornet28

Ok I'm clueless. What's an EMS?

basicaly its a power tester/ filter.

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