We are in Florida visiting family and friends and normally spend the nights in our MH, parked in front of the house. Being from the West Coast, heat is an issue for us. We planned to do this last night only to realize we plugged into a garage outlet which was 15 amp and the A/C is 20 AMP and the breaker kept tripping. I can't imagine a workaround, but i thought it would be worth asking. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

Well, unless your friends are willing to let you hook up to a larger service, you're outta luck. Do they have the laundry in the garage? You could get an adapter and connect to the dryer outlet.

majorgator wrote:Well, unless your friends are willing to let you hook up to a larger service, you're outta luck. Do they have the laundry in the garage? You could get an adapter and connect to the dryer outlet.Pretty sure this has been tried by many, only to fry their equipment. I could be wrong however.

derh20 wrote:We are in Florida visiting family and friends and normally spend the nights in our MH, parked in front of the house. Being from the West Coast, heat is an issue for us. We planned to do this last night only to realize we plugged into a garage outlet which was 15 amp and the A/C is 20 AMP and the breaker kept tripping. I can't imagine a workaround, but i thought it would be worth asking. Let me know if you have any thoughts.I'm assuming the unit in your signature is what you are staying in? No on-board generator? Only other option is to run the "fan-only" for circulation. We've done that a lot when driveway camping somewhere.

You can try turning everything off except the air conditioner- fridge on gas, converter off. Keep an eye on the voltage. 15 amp is pushing it though.

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ronfisherman
Moderator
Sep 29, 2015
Why not use your generator?
djousma
Explorer
Sep 29, 2015
derh20 wrote:
We are in Florida visiting family and friends and normally spend the nights in our MH, parked in front of the house. Being from the West Coast, heat is an issue for us. We planned to do this last night only to realize we plugged into a garage outlet which was 15 amp and the A/C is 20 AMP and the breaker kept tripping. I can't imagine a workaround, but i thought it would be worth asking. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

I'm assuming the unit in your signature is what you are staying in? No on-board generator? Only other option is to run the "fan-only" for circulation. We've done that a lot when driveway camping somewhere.
djousma
Explorer
Sep 29, 2015
majorgator wrote:
Well, unless your friends are willing to let you hook up to a larger service, you're outta luck. Do they have the laundry in the garage? You could get an adapter and connect to the dryer outlet.

Pretty sure this has been tried by many, only to fry their equipment. I could be wrong however.
majorgator
Explorer
Sep 29, 2015
Well, unless your friends are willing to let you hook up to a larger service, you're outta luck. Do they have the laundry in the garage? You could get an adapter and connect to the dryer outlet.

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