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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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down_home
Explorer II
Jun 13, 2015
I vote for breaker or corrosion there or cord.
Our coach is 50 amp but sometimes we must run thirty.
Thirty will run two acs and tvs etc.
Load sharing will shed the front ac if we cut on the microwave.
I've seen the plug end, of the cord, really hot on thirty sometimes.
We have a little plug in meter next to refrigerator. Voltage out, of whack we run the genny, 30 or 50.

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