Air Conditioner Issues
We bought a 2008 TT last year not knowing if the AC is 13,000 BTU or 15,000 BTU. The first time we took it out to a state park it worked fine except that one time it tripped the 30 amp breaker in the...
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If your computer doesn't work, make sure it's plugged in, duh!!! I went back and checked EVERYTHING again... Contrary to what I assumed... my water heater was set to electric and drawing 14 amps as soon as I plugged in.
MY generator is rated for 23 amps and has max capacity of 25 Amps. My AC settles at around 12.5 amps and the rest of the trailer has 1 amp of other parasitic loads, add it all up including 14 amps for the water heater and you get a total of 27.5 amps... Wow. I"m surprised my generator was able to carry that type of load for almost 5 min before stalling. ...and hope I didn't damage the coils as a result of overloading.
Anyway case closed. Hopefully this helps someone else who might be overlooking the obvious.
MY generator is rated for 23 amps and has max capacity of 25 Amps. My AC settles at around 12.5 amps and the rest of the trailer has 1 amp of other parasitic loads, add it all up including 14 amps for the water heater and you get a total of 27.5 amps... Wow. I"m surprised my generator was able to carry that type of load for almost 5 min before stalling. ...and hope I didn't damage the coils as a result of overloading.
Anyway case closed. Hopefully this helps someone else who might be overlooking the obvious.
