Crack Down on 50 Amp Rigs Using 30 Amp Sites
I don't know how long this has been going on but I learned today that some RV parks including the Washington/Pittsbugh KOA I had booked has a policy that if your rig has 50 amp service, you can't use ...
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Range Maggot Bob wrote:
All that may be fine, but what if you roll in a little late and all they have is 30amp hookups? Would they send you down the road instead of giving you a spot? Miss out on that revenue? Not good business sense if you ask me, but like you said- their campground, their rules.
It may be good business if your 50A rig would use a greater portion of the 30A available power than is left on the main loop, and a bunch of sites are plunged into darkness because the main breaker popped, and those people leave with a bad impression of the park.
Likewise, if some other camper who arrived before you with a 50A rig and was not very happy about having to pay extra for a 50A site realized that you, with your 50A rig, got a 30A site, they could understandably be quite disgruntled at that situation. Selective or arbitrary rule enforcement is a very quick way to make people unhappy, even more so than non-enforcement or strict enforcement.
