What the #@!! happened??
Recently while dry camping in Yosemite we had a problem arise. During generator hours my lovely wife plugged in her flat iron/hair straightener and the hair dryer at the same time in the GFI outlet in...
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CaptPicky wrote:
Most appliances have some type of thermal cut off protection built into their circuits. There are different types, some blow like a fuse and others will reset when they cool off. I betting the TCO's were still hot when you tried the appliances at the generator, by the time you got home everything was cooled off and worked just fine. Many moons ago, Mr. Coffee machines were starting fires left and right because they had a bad batch of TCO's.
Interesting point you bring up about cooling off of the "TCO's". Another thing I tried while it was happening, my neighbor camper had me plug the microwave and coffee maker(separately of course)directly into his generator and they still didn't work.
