Necessary New RPod Add-ons? |
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NHpod
Newbie Joined: 15 Jul 2017 Location: Campton, NH Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Topic: Necessary New RPod Add-ons? Posted: 10 Aug 2017 at 8:32am |
I agree, I have been shopping for a pod for months now and this dealer blew it out of the park. I will probably install a hardwired surge protector myself.
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4Papa
Groupie Joined: 31 Jul 2017 Location: MA Online Status: Offline Posts: 62 |
Posted: 10 Aug 2017 at 10:28am |
The hard-wired surge protector appears to be a PITA to install (#6 gauge wiring). I'm on the fence about attempting it.
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NHpod
Newbie Joined: 15 Jul 2017 Location: Campton, NH Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Posted: 10 Aug 2017 at 11:01am |
I found this Instruction PDF That someone posted here on the site; I'm sorry I don't remember who posted it but it is very informative.
Instead of cutting the incoming wire you just disconnect it from the main breaker at the box, connect it to the input side of the SP and use a piece of 10/2 romex to go from the output side of the SP to the breaker. THis was done on a 179, I don't know what room there is on the 178 to do this until I get it.
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4Papa
Groupie Joined: 31 Jul 2017 Location: MA Online Status: Offline Posts: 62 |
Posted: 10 Aug 2017 at 12:54pm |
Wow! Kudos to the (unknown) author. I am officially less intimidated. Thanks for sharing.
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spydie
Senior Member Joined: 25 Jul 2017 Location: New Mexico Online Status: Offline Posts: 159 |
Posted: 10 Aug 2017 at 11:25pm |
I'd hate to have anything happen to you if you didn't install a surge protector, but I've been camping in all sorts of RVs for 40 years all over the USA and never had one and never had a problem. But I guess it CAN happen to a few people.
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2018 R-pod 176
2017 RAM 1500 5.7L Hemi |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6326 |
Posted: 11 Aug 2017 at 11:24am |
On our last trip, we stayed at a campground where the first site had a power problem. I plugged our circuit analyzer/surge protector in and it showed that there was an open ground. We moved to a different site where the analyzer showed all was fine with the power pole. We might have been fine at the first site, but we might also have had a situation where it could have turned deadly. |
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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rawest50
Senior Member Joined: 07 Mar 2017 Location: Arkansas Online Status: Offline Posts: 440 |
Posted: 11 Aug 2017 at 3:17pm |
Slide out for the bathroom.
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2017.5 RPod 179
2017 Jeep Unlimited Wrangler 2017 Chevy Colorado Z71 Off Road Crew Cab 2 Weiner dogs Great wife puts up with my BS ❤️ Thoroughbred Racing. |
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ParPod
Senior Member Joined: 28 Oct 2016 Location: Manitoba Online Status: Offline Posts: 105 |
Posted: 12 Aug 2017 at 8:18am |
We had the converter blow in the middle of the night back in our Tent trailer days....sounds like a gunshot....we were in a Provincial Park on the north shore of Superior and they had a surge that got us and a couple of other units.......I've had a surge protector ever since. Cheap insurance for sure!
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Bob&Margaret
2017 179 2016 Toyota 4Runner 2 sets of Golf Clubs |
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