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Wiz
Explorer
Jun 13, 2015

Main breaker trips with A/C and Microwave on.->RESOLVED

My main circuit breaker trips if we start the microwave when the A/C is running. Today when it happened, I forgot to turn off the AC before resetting the breaker and the A/C wouldn't start. I turned i...
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Houston_Remodel
Explorer
Jun 13, 2015
1- Is this at your home or ALL campgrounds? If the wire feeding the circuit to the rv is too thin, you can't possible draw enough amps to run both. Or the wire could be faulty otherwise such as a nick underground. At the CG last weekend we could not run both. At the same CG but a different site we have had no problems. Our Progressive industries surge protector indicator panel showed low voltage available.

2- The AC may have a 'wait a few minutes' before restarting itself setting. Mine does.

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