30 amp adapter
A well spoken and polite lady arrived at the office to proclaim that the site she had taken would not run the air conditioner. Office personnel informed her that the site provided only 15 amps whi...
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Golden_HVAC wrote:
I heard a report of British campgrounds and those in Europe are normally only supplied a 7 amp circuit for the campers over there.
That's 7 amps @ 220 - 240 vac / 50 Hz, not 7 amps @ 120 vac / 60 Hz ... BIG difference. :R
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I don't know that I would ever want to camp with limited shore power. 30 amps is small enough. Anything smaller, and I would rather be dry camping. . .
Although I'd normally use campsite 30 amp service when available we typically pull well below that maximum rating even when running A/C simply by managing our power draw. If we want to temporarily use another high draw device we simply dial back the A/C thermo so the compressor kicks off, then dial it back up when we're done ... as long as the unloaded source voltage is reasonably close to a nominal 120 vac and the run to the power source isn't excessively long I can easily power what I need to in the camper, including A/C, with just 15 amp main service.
