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MPI_Mallard
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Mar 25, 2017

Portable Induction Cooktops

A question,,, do these burners use a lot of electricity? A friend was raving about how well his works and how it cuts down heating up the interior like a propane burner does but as we're on 30A's during the summer I wonder if it will be popping breakers.

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  • Have one........it pulls roughly 1800W/15 amps on HIGH

    Used it a lot when first got it.
    Then the 'novelty' wore off and hardly use it at all.

    Use stove top/oven/charcoal BBQ mostly and a 'slow cooker'

    It works, does the job-----just isn't 'better' enough for me to change my ways I guess.
  • Yup you can use it but just like the other appliances in an RV you can NOT have any 2 on at the same time.

    Keep in mind that includes your AC. You'd have to turn off the AC when you use the cooktop if you have a 30 amp RV.

    What I do is hook up my small cooking appliances outside to the shore station 110 outlet. That way I can run my AC in the MH at the same time.

    I picked up a real nice lite weight folding folds completely flat, aluminum table from walmart. I place that by the shore station to put my electrical cooking pots etc. and that is where all my cooking appliances are used and plugged into the 110 outlet.

  • Our rig is 50 amps but we use 15 amp appliances when on 30 amp sites - we just have to make sure we don't run more than one high-draw appliance at a time (like turn off the electric fireplace to use a heater in the bathroom, don't run a hair dryer at the same time as the microwave or the big AC, etc.). We have seriously considered an induction plate, but decided it wasn't for us, either.

    Rob
  • A camper here has one and is on 30 amp - they have no problem. However, 1 burner is not enough for me as I cook full meals most of the time and have 3 burners all going on the cooktop, or 2 burners and the convection oven (when cooking inside), so I don't think it would work for me.
  • The first few shown on Amazon are 1800w, so yeah, that's a lot.
  • I didn't get one, yet. The portable units I checked use 1800 watts, or 15 amps.
    About the same as an electric heater.