Caravan Surge Protection

[bigbubba]

I realise that PH may not be the best venue to start a thread on caravans but here goes!

We are borrowing my parents brand new caravan this weekend. We are going to a site that does not have power so I am going to hire a generator.

I have done some research and ideally I need a generator with a built in inverter so as to protect the caravan charger from power spikes.

Unfortunately I can not hire an inverter gennie so I am looking at hiring a standard one and using an in-line surge protector such as this.

Is there anyone on PH with experience of this sort of set up in caravans that is prepared to expose themselves as a caravaner and help me?!

Thank you

BB

[Simpo Two]

As I understand it an inverter converts 12V DC to 240V AC, eg to run mains appliances. Surge protection is something else.

Sine wave generators are best.

[Chrisgr31]

I have a circuit breaker which I have use in the awning of our caravan. Would have thought your proposal will be ok.

[bigbubba]

Yes it is but the inverter generator produces at 12v and inverts to a guaranteed 240v.

A non inverter generator can produce up to 300v depending on load so it can blow sensitive equipment.

The surge protector is supposed to guard against this.

[tr7v8]

If you go on site you'll find most caravans running off a little honda or similar genny. These don't have problems, the only time you may see 300VAC is offload. On load the regulation of most of the decent units is fine.

Edited to add that what you're looking for isn't surge suppression but voltage regulation. Surges are spikes & dips.