Overloaded circuits
It's been a while since I've posted here...Just didn't have anything interesting to add to any of the conversations. Anyhow, this came up recently when we had a battery problem that caused the battery...
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The trailer only has 15 outlets altogether. They could have put 6 of them on the other breaker, and added a breaker for the converter and all would have been right. Especially since the circuits were named 'front' and 'back' I didn't in a million years think that 'front' meant 'the entire damn trailer' and back meant 'just these two outlets in the kitchen slide'.
At the end of the day, I've got a solution to my main problem of tripping a breaker because it simply had too much connected load.
Technically the kitchen and bathroom ARE on separate circuits. The outlet in the "kitchen" is the only one on the other circuit. All the other outlets are in the "living room" and "dining room" (Even though all the outlets are within 10' of each other in a giant open space in the main living area) and bedrooms. Those ones are all on the bathroom circuit.
Hey at least everything is GFCI protected right?
I'm guessing the limit on number of circuit breakers isn't going to be a limiting factor. I had 6, and now I have 7 (I added two but disabled the one because it had been tripped many times so I figured it would be getting weak.) There's still room in my panel for two more breakers even though the total is 100A worth of breakers but the trailer only has 30A service coming in.
At the end of the day, I've got a solution to my main problem of tripping a breaker because it simply had too much connected load.
RGar974417 wrote:
I guess trailer manufacturer's don't follow the NEC because you're not allowed more than 8 general duty outlets on a 15 amp circuit.And kitchen and bath must be on separate circuits.
Technically the kitchen and bathroom ARE on separate circuits. The outlet in the "kitchen" is the only one on the other circuit. All the other outlets are in the "living room" and "dining room" (Even though all the outlets are within 10' of each other in a giant open space in the main living area) and bedrooms. Those ones are all on the bathroom circuit.
Hey at least everything is GFCI protected right?
wa8yxm wrote:
By the very same code there is a limit to the number of circuit breakers.. SO....
What can you do? (And please do not ask me to answer that question).
I'm guessing the limit on number of circuit breakers isn't going to be a limiting factor. I had 6, and now I have 7 (I added two but disabled the one because it had been tripped many times so I figured it would be getting weak.) There's still room in my panel for two more breakers even though the total is 100A worth of breakers but the trailer only has 30A service coming in.
