adding fireplace
thinking about adding electric fireplace in cabinet below the tv. I only have 30 amp not 50 amp. my questions are, has anyone done this, and are their places in the fuse box to add this? my brothe...
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George3037 wrote:
My TT is 30A and came with the fireplace option. I've been driveway camping the past couple weeks and run the fireplace at night. We've still had some nights where temps drop into the high 30's and the furnace comes on occasionally to assist the fireplace but not as much as it would without. I can see by my EMS-HW30C that amp draw varies between 10-16A depending on other devices I have turned on. I am plugged into a 30A pedestal. If the OP's trailer is connected to a 15 or 20A pedestal he may trip a breaker at times but I have not on my 30A dedicated circuit.
Unless they recently upgraded the EMSHW30C, don't rely much on the EMS current readout. The EMSHW30C current reading is notoriously inaccurate. The mfg will even admit it. It can read high, low or near accurate on the same load. I've seen mine read as low as <20A when drawing near 30A and as high as 35A when the known draws is 15A.
