about perfect for a 30 amp RV!

Ralph Cramden wrote:

I've found the vast majority of power issues not to be caused by poor design or inadequate facilities, but be caused by people without enough adequate gray matter in the brainpan.

One certain PA state park comes to mind where all sites are 30 amp and advertised as such. All is fine until the people with the shiny new 50 amp rigs arrive, especially so on a holiday weekends, and proceed to power up everything in said rig using every type of dogbone imaginable from the 30 amp pedestal, be they commercially produced or homemade. Then the entire campground system goes wonky. Its usually the people on the end of the circuit who get the screwing even though they have a 30 amp rig.

Then the 50 ampers are the first to run and complain to management that they can't get both 15K AC's to run at the same time with the convection oven, washer and dryer, and 4 TV's. They probably demand a discount I would imagine.


I'd like to know when in such a situation, how far does a "BIG DISCOUNT" go in offsetting the cost of replacing or repairing a few fried electrical items like a control board or two or the converter?

Those "50 ampers" cannot pull more than 30 amps through the 30 amp breaker, and 15 or 20 amps using a separate cord plugged into the breaker protected GFCI utility outlet. None of the 'Y' adapters, whether commercial or homemade, will work with an NEC compliant park panel.