Crack Down on 50 Amp Rigs Using 30 Amp Sites

RobWNY wrote:
Here's something to ponder. If you take your RV and book a site, any site with electricity. Aren't you paying to use the amount of electricity the pedestal provides? I'm reading in this thread that they expect you to use something less than the rated allowance so they can feed all of the sites within that loop or fed area. Seems to me that if I'm paying for 30A or 50A service, I should be allowed to use all of it for the length of my stay. Not 23A or 43A or whatever so everyone within the loop is happy. If this is the case, then they should market these sites as "this is a 30A site but you can only use 23A continuously and 30A momentarily". Campgrounds should have their sites wired so everyone can use all the power a site provides.

And hence why this thread was started. The parks in question won't rent a 30 amp site to a 50 amp rig so they don't have the problem of someone believing that just because they paid for a site, they should be able to use it in a manner it was not designed for. 30 amp sites have electrical systems that are not designed for 50 amp rigs. End of story. You can muse all you want about how they should be built to accommodate higher loads, but that is not how it is done. And guess what, the other services at your site are not designed to work should everyone in the park decide to run them at their maximum at the same time. The water pressure would drop to nearly nil should everyone run all the faucets at the same time. The sewage lines would overflow if on the count of ten everyone in the park dumped.
All your arguments are short circuited by the fact that park won't rent a 30 amp site to a 50 amp rig, so they haven't paid for services they can't use.
BTW, if you haven't ever met a "poor" campground owner, maybe it's because they run a good business and manage their expenses. They go around spending money on things they don't have to. Maybe they realize that if they let that 50 amp rig just go down the road, there will either be a 30 amp rig coming along to take it's place or at the very least the 20 guests on that 30 amp loop won't have the power at the main trip off leaving them upset and in the dark. either way it's a net win for the park.