30A or 50A Choice
Which would you choose ?
Forum Discussion
I personally find this discussion amusing.
In the early 70's, I worked for a company called Thetford. (Have you heard of them?) This was the time when the GMC coaches were being introduced. They were all built as 50A. (Nema 14-50 plug, but most have a dual 40A main breaker.) The talk in the business was that the RV world would soon all be 50A. In the later production, they were all built with 2 roof ACs, electric hot water, a microwave (without any gas oven at all) and electric refrigeration. That was all the talk.
That was all of 45years ago. The newest of these turned 40 this year.
We like to have at least 15amp (two parallel blades is 15, one blade the other way is 20) so I don't have to worry about the battery overnight. If we are both running computers, this can be a problem.
But, we in a private campground because DW wanted a bigger shower to wash her hair, and the neighbor that arrived with a 40+ coach and went on a 50amp post and then ran an extension cord to the 15amp duplex to run something in the coach.
Good to see that the campgrounds have kept up with the technology.
I was amused.
Matt
In the early 70's, I worked for a company called Thetford. (Have you heard of them?) This was the time when the GMC coaches were being introduced. They were all built as 50A. (Nema 14-50 plug, but most have a dual 40A main breaker.) The talk in the business was that the RV world would soon all be 50A. In the later production, they were all built with 2 roof ACs, electric hot water, a microwave (without any gas oven at all) and electric refrigeration. That was all the talk.
That was all of 45years ago. The newest of these turned 40 this year.
We like to have at least 15amp (two parallel blades is 15, one blade the other way is 20) so I don't have to worry about the battery overnight. If we are both running computers, this can be a problem.
But, we in a private campground because DW wanted a bigger shower to wash her hair, and the neighbor that arrived with a 40+ coach and went on a 50amp post and then ran an extension cord to the 15amp duplex to run something in the coach.
Good to see that the campgrounds have kept up with the technology.
I was amused.
Matt
