Hughes back in, OEM Hard Wired SurgeGuard in Bypass Mode, new plug i
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Now please, let's keep this post from my DW - as she will claim this is not an unusual trait of Smitty:)!
Trait? Well, I've sometimes been known to 'analyse/study/engineer' things for so long, that to some - it could seem I'm procrastinating!!!
In 2014 our Hughes Autoformer took one for the coach. (A bad park managed generator in the Yukon, melted the Autoformer, which was first in line from Shore Power.)
2015, purchased another gently used, older model which I prefer, Hughes Autoformer. We've carried it in a bay, and used it at the pole in a few parks as needed.
2016, I picked up a Used/New Progressive 50 EMS, plug & play model, vs hard wire. (Gent had bought it two years earlier for a spare, and sold his coach and surplus spare parts, where I snagged it from him.)
So now in 2018, which due to the need to properly research, and 'engineer' my approach, I've incorporated all of the moving pieces together again:)! So it really was not procrastination, as much as it was 'task avoidance' (And heck, if needed, had everything I'd need to fix something...) 
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So here is what I did today:
-Put the CC OEM Hardwired Surgeguarrd into By Pass mode
-Plugged the shore power feed into the Progressive EMS
-Plugged the Hughes Autoformer into the Progressive EMS
Note: Before, I had the Hughes as fist in line from Shore Power, as it had more robust Low Voltage and Joules protection then the Surgeguard. (The Surgeguard would have shut off, where as the Hughes would have continued boosting power from a little lower voltage coming in from the pole.) The downside, is the Hughes Autoformer is more expensive then the Surgeguard.)
The Progressive EMS has a bit more robustness in lower voltage allowance, then the Surgeguard, and while more expensive then the Surgeguard, it is still less expensive the the Hughes Autoformer. - thus the switch into what Shore Power feeds into first. (And, if ever needed, and at pole testing shows it is only low voltage below the Progressives pass thru levels, easy enough to go move the plugs around and have the Autoformer back in line first.
Note again, that by leaving the Surgegard inline in By Pass mode. If a lightening strike takes out the Progressive and or Hughes Autoformer and or both - I can always plug shore power back into the feed of the Surgeguard, and take it out of By Pass mode - and still have protection. Redundancy for sure:)!)
So this ends my successful chapter of non procrastinating shuffling of the EMS and Autoformer.
May the power be with you, have fun, be safe,
Smitty
04 Allure 31017
(Now, if I can just make a decision between Beta and VHS - I can close off another open item:)!)
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