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TechWriter wrote:

MrWizard wrote:

You just can't convince some people that using l.p. for fridge,wh, or heat
Is better than a low voltage "Brown out"

I'm guessing that most RVers don't even know about low voltage.

I know more about Low Voltage than I care to know (And no, not due to having fried a compressor).

But I look at it this way, the park where I am parked, charges one rate for 30 amp, and another for 50

I am paying for 50

I am thus entitled to use it.

That said, in the park I am in the wiring is up to the task, The only time I have had a "Low voltage"issue it was a NO-VOLTAGE issue (Power fail park wide due to incident elsewhere).

But in many parks... well the park was built back when 30 amp RV's were rare and 50 amp rigs were not even on the drawing board,, The wiring is NOT up to the task and has not been upgraded,, Aluminum feeders now 50-or more years old have deteriorated to the point where any load is too much.

But when I pay for 30, or 50 amps, I expect to be able to use it, I think I have a right to expect to be able to use it.

What some folks do is run 2 or 3 cords.. Now that (in most cases) is excessive (Sometimes I run a 2nd line just for my Wi-Fi Modem, (Depends on where the park pedestal is and where I park the Modem) but well.. single digit wattage is not really a concern.