Operating on a 20amp circuit
Need to operate my rig for three or four days in early December. Will only use bare necessities in electricity. Lights mainly. Propane for heat, propane for water heater. In SW Oklahoma, it could ...
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All of our previous TT's have all been 30 amp and we plugged into 20 amp service all the time and never had any kind of issue. It's all about power management.
Then a year ago we got the 50 amp 5er...whole new ballgame for us. Found out we could function pretty well plugged into a 30 amp service. We just followed the same long standing practices we always did when we had the 30 amp TT's.
Then, last April, we stayed at a relative's home and they had a small shed where we plugged into a 15 amp service for our 50 amp 5er. Before arriving, I had all the wire ready and all the step-down / step-up adapters to go from 20 to 30 to 50 and backwards again.
Turned out, not only did that single 15 amp service, service one plug, it also powered a refrigerator and a freezer inside that shed. We that 15 amp service was divided. The house (an old farm house in the countryside in Indiana), had the old screw type glass fuses and he showed me where he kept extras in case we blew one.
We made it 2 night and 3 days in April, in Indiana crazy weather, and never blew a single fuse in the house. We practiced power management.
If "it" had ability to run on battery or propane, we ran "it" on battery and/or propane. The only thing running on electric was our own refrigerator (all electric) and our television and alarm clock.
We did just fine over that week-end. Power management! That's all it takes.
And oh yes, I had to run about 75 feet of 30 amp cord, attached to 35 feet of 50 amp cord, started out with the 20 amp - 30 amp RV dogbone adapter. Then a 30 to 50 rv dogbone adapter.
Then a year ago we got the 50 amp 5er...whole new ballgame for us. Found out we could function pretty well plugged into a 30 amp service. We just followed the same long standing practices we always did when we had the 30 amp TT's.
Then, last April, we stayed at a relative's home and they had a small shed where we plugged into a 15 amp service for our 50 amp 5er. Before arriving, I had all the wire ready and all the step-down / step-up adapters to go from 20 to 30 to 50 and backwards again.
Turned out, not only did that single 15 amp service, service one plug, it also powered a refrigerator and a freezer inside that shed. We that 15 amp service was divided. The house (an old farm house in the countryside in Indiana), had the old screw type glass fuses and he showed me where he kept extras in case we blew one.
We made it 2 night and 3 days in April, in Indiana crazy weather, and never blew a single fuse in the house. We practiced power management.
If "it" had ability to run on battery or propane, we ran "it" on battery and/or propane. The only thing running on electric was our own refrigerator (all electric) and our television and alarm clock.
We did just fine over that week-end. Power management! That's all it takes.
And oh yes, I had to run about 75 feet of 30 amp cord, attached to 35 feet of 50 amp cord, started out with the 20 amp - 30 amp RV dogbone adapter. Then a 30 to 50 rv dogbone adapter.
