surge protectors

I use the progressive industries EMS-PT30C portable model. I had the hard wired model on my popup, but I couldn't find anywhere to put it that I liked with the 179. (Unless you have the remote display model) There is plenty of room behind the converter to mount one. I secure it by various methods. Most of the time I can padlock the pole box cover so you cannot unplug it. Other times I have a decent bicycle lock - short cable with barrel lock that I have used to secure it to the conduit on the pole. There is a metal ring that allows my lock cable to slip through. Anyone with strong enough desire and bolt cutters will steal it though, but at least you made it difficult for them. I won't plug in without one though - Last time out the pole I was plugged into worked fine, except I tripped the 20amp breaker while plugged into the 30amp outlet!!! I lost power and the 30 amp breaker was still on... the doofus wired it to the 20 amp outlet. Oh well, just had to turn off the AC while cooking my brownies.