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Reply to: Your car will probably be fine after an EMP Posted June 20, 2021

Thanks for the reply, Robert. I’m more skeptical after reading other comments and checking out the websites you included suggesting empshield is a scam.  Quick question for anyone who understands electricity better than I do, which is super basic knowledge.  We have been living in an RV since last September.  We’ve been at 2 different places and at this campground we are currently since Novemeber 2020.  I called the empshield people when we first got set up in the RV because my mother-in-law had already sent us the empshield and we needed to get something to protect our RV from electrical events at campgrounds.  I tested the RV Park’s 50, 30, and 20 AMP outlets with a multimeter before plugging in.  All appeared fine.  Empshield told me we WOULD NOT need any other surge protector at the outlet or within our RV to protect it from a power surge.  All we would have to do is plug the 110V empshield into any 110V outlet in the RV.  They said we would need a separate empshield for the 12V system of the RV…though they are wired together through an inverter/converter so that various lights and plugs work (regardless of whether the RV is plugged in) and batteries can stay charged when you are plugged in to city power.   Can anyone validate these claims of the empshield providing electrical surge protection merely by being plugged into an outlet within the storage bay of our RV??  We have a “residential”-type breaker box AND “automobile”-type fuse panel with another handful of breakers.  We almost bought one of those plugs that go in ahead of the 50AMP power cord into the campground hook-up…or one that hard mounts into your RV somewhere (so it can’t be stolen).  But then the empshield showed up from grandma!  Can I trust it to do the same job and protect my stuff from sketchy campgrounds and/or other electrical events that would otherwise require surge protection for your RV??!!  HELP! (THIS IS A DECENT CAMPGROUND …BUT I WANT TO HIT THE ROAD LATER THIS YEAR AND DON’T WANT TO RISK MY HOME TO BAD ELECTRICITY AT SKETCHY HOOK-UPS.)

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Reply to: Your car will probably be fine after an EMP Posted June 20, 2021

Thanks for the reply, Robert. I’m more skeptical after reading other comments and checking out the websites you included suggesting empshield is a scam.  Quick question for anyone who understands electricity better than I do, which is super basic knowledge.  We have been living in an RV since last September.  We’ve been at 2 different places and at this campground we are currently since Novemeber 2020.  I called the empshield people when we first got set up in the RV because my mother-in-law had already sent us the empshield and we needed to get something to protect our RV from electrical events at campgrounds.  I tested the RV Park’s 50, 30, and 20 AMP outlets with a multimeter before plugging in.  All appeared fine.  Empshield told me we WOULD NOT need any other surge protector at the outlet or within our RV to protect it from a power surge.  All we would have to do is plug the 110V empshield into any 110V outlet in the RV.  They said we would need a separate empshield for the 12V system of the RV…though they are wired together through an inverter/converter so that various lights and plugs work (regardless of whether the RV is plugged in) and batteries can stay charged when you are plugged in to city power.   Can anyone validate these claims of the empshield providing electrical surge protection merely by being plugged into an outlet within the storage bay of our RV??  We have a “residential”-type breaker box AND “automobile”-type fuse panel with another handful of breakers.  We almost bought one of those plugs that go in ahead of the 50AMP power cord into the campground hook-up…or one that hard mounts into your RV somewhere (so it can’t be stolen).  But then the empshield showed up from grandma!  Can I trust it to do the same job and protect my stuff from sketchy campgrounds and/or other electrical events that would otherwise require surge protection for your RV??!!  HELP! (THIS IS A DECENT CAMPGROUND …BUT I WANT TO HIT THE ROAD LATER THIS YEAR AND DON’T WANT TO RISK MY HOME TO BAD ELECTRICITY AT SKETCHY HOOK-UPS.)