30 amp is really 20amp
Am I the only one who pays for 30amp service only to get a 30 amp socket with 20amp or less power?? This has happened several times in the past five weeks of travel. I don't think it's nice to try an...
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First, Debbie, WELCOME!
People often "say" things with their fingertips that the rest of their senses like sight and sound wouldn't allow.
V*A=W, true enough. Problem is, appliances etc. want W, so if V goes down, A actually goes UP and A is a major cause of heat.
I just got back from a state park. Park wasn't near full, voltage started around that 118, dropped to 115, then 108, 105, caught it just under 100. Breakers tripping in the Motorhome. This is a 30A coach with 15K A/C. This was happening with only A/C and Convertor. Debbie, one of your 120VAC breakers should be Converter, but probably other things on it that you don't want to power off for long. Still, you could do a test.
So, I complain to the Park, and they send their maintenance man over. Told me he's replaced all the pedestal breakers and outlets. I said I noticed that, my problem was that my A/C was tripping the 20A breaker in the coach and sometimes both the 20A A/C breaker and the 30A main. (that can happen because one breaker heats up the other - I had a small fan blowing on the breaker panel!) Maintenance guy says they have a capital budget request, not funded, to pull all new power service in the campground, about 40 sites. But meanwhile, we were on a loop with 30A breakers and outlets. 10 sites in that loop, powered from a loop with a single One Hundred Amp Fuse! So, 30A "service" that's more like 10A, 100A source divided by possibly 10 users.
So Debbie, YES. Keep coming back.
People often "say" things with their fingertips that the rest of their senses like sight and sound wouldn't allow.
V*A=W, true enough. Problem is, appliances etc. want W, so if V goes down, A actually goes UP and A is a major cause of heat.
I just got back from a state park. Park wasn't near full, voltage started around that 118, dropped to 115, then 108, 105, caught it just under 100. Breakers tripping in the Motorhome. This is a 30A coach with 15K A/C. This was happening with only A/C and Convertor. Debbie, one of your 120VAC breakers should be Converter, but probably other things on it that you don't want to power off for long. Still, you could do a test.
So, I complain to the Park, and they send their maintenance man over. Told me he's replaced all the pedestal breakers and outlets. I said I noticed that, my problem was that my A/C was tripping the 20A breaker in the coach and sometimes both the 20A A/C breaker and the 30A main. (that can happen because one breaker heats up the other - I had a small fan blowing on the breaker panel!) Maintenance guy says they have a capital budget request, not funded, to pull all new power service in the campground, about 40 sites. But meanwhile, we were on a loop with 30A breakers and outlets. 10 sites in that loop, powered from a loop with a single One Hundred Amp Fuse! So, 30A "service" that's more like 10A, 100A source divided by possibly 10 users.
So Debbie, YES. Keep coming back.
