Power pedestal wiring question
When camping in our travel trailer, we usually camp at spots that have a power pedestal that has both 30 amp outlet as well as a 20 amp GFCI protected outlet net to it. If I plug the trailer into the ...
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rhagfo wrote:
Well depends on the age of the park! Older parks
May have the pedestal feed by a 30 amp breaker for both circuits. They may have as many as four pedestals fed by a single 70 amp breaker.
Newer parks may have that pedestal fed by a 50 amp breaker, I would say if it only has a 30 and 20 you have less than 50 amps available. Consider cooking and heating water using gas. We do that and use about 7 gallons of propane a month.
Yep. I know you are familiar with Oregon State Parks and I have a story about that.
Maybe 10 years ago our family were camped on a cold evening in a coastal state park (Beverly Beach?). We had 5 or 6 sites in a row. A few of us had space heaters running and we lost power. After getting nowhere with the camp host (too late, will call someone tomorrow, etc), I looked around and found the main panel a couple spots down in our loop. Naturally it had a padlock by the door but it was just locked through a hole on the end of a little metal flat bar that protruded past the bottom of the box so that the lock hasp blocked the door. It bent down with the slightest force and allowed the door to open. Inside I found a 60A (I'm pretty sure) breaker tripped which I reset, closed the door and bent the bar back up.
I think there were 4 or maybe 5 sites out with that one breaker.
