30 amp is really 20amp

If you are told there are 30 amp receptacles and all you find are standard household plugs, you have a gripe. If your site has a standard 30 amp female plug, you need to know a lot more before you go off and say you only have 20 amps of power available. There are a lot of appliances in an RV that will run you past 20 amps and right on past 30 amps if you turn it on. Things like hair dryers, space heaters, microwave ovens all can draw 12 or 13 amps. You could be at 18 amps on your normal stuff, go to dry your hair and trip a 20 or 30 amp service. I have never seen a park that had 30 amp hookups, yet were in reality 20 amp. Won't say it couldn't happen, but if you think you are finding it often you are either scraping the bottom of the park barrel, or are mistaken.

No it's not nice to try an fool anybody.......

Now how did you figure out that the 30A was only 20A?

And where/who are these places...CG's?

In over 6yrs. FT'ng have yet to come across a 30A outlet fed by a 20A breaker and we have stayed in many, many, many CG's

Have come across some 'weak' breakers, bad receptacles and some not properly wired........but when brought to the CG owners/managers attention problems were fixed.

I'm curious why you think this is the case?

Hi Debbie,

I do know of one campground that is "up front" and warns you that they only provide 15 amp power--but the plug is a 30 amp female RV type plug.

Please elaborate on how you determined this.