Current Draw Of Residential Refrigerator ?
We live full time in a travel trailer with 30 amp service. All our 120 volt service seems to be wired on two breakers. Two years ago the breakers started tripping frequently. We traced it down to t...
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You have a point - except for perhaps one thing you either haven't mentioned or your RV doesn't have.
I checked our Class C a little while ago. It has four (4) 15 amp circuit breakers and one (1) 20 amp circuit breaker.
However - it also has a main 30 amp circuit breaker - so if the overall load becomes too much from the five smaller breakers in combination, the main 30 amp circuit breaker will of course trip. Since this circuit breaker is right inside in the local breaker panel, it's convenient to get at.
I figure the reason(s) why this master 30 amp breaker was included by Winnebago is to serve as a backup to the Onan generator's internal overload protection and/or as a backup to any (perhaps unreliable) 30 amp circuit breaker outside on a campground power pole.
I checked our Class C a little while ago. It has four (4) 15 amp circuit breakers and one (1) 20 amp circuit breaker.
However - it also has a main 30 amp circuit breaker - so if the overall load becomes too much from the five smaller breakers in combination, the main 30 amp circuit breaker will of course trip. Since this circuit breaker is right inside in the local breaker panel, it's convenient to get at.
I figure the reason(s) why this master 30 amp breaker was included by Winnebago is to serve as a backup to the Onan generator's internal overload protection and/or as a backup to any (perhaps unreliable) 30 amp circuit breaker outside on a campground power pole.
