Travel trailer circuit breakers keep popping
Not willing to freeze to death this winter in our Jayco Pinnacle in Kelowna, B.C, we purchased a 2006 29-foot Roadrunner Elite travel trailer and have been happily wintering in Apache Junction, Arizon...
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First, fuses either are good or not. They are never in the process of "burning out." That repair man either was just telling you something to get your money or he was full of it.
Second, the circuit breakers are tripping because the circuit is overloaded. While it is possible the breakers are weak from excessive tripping, it is not probable that all of them are failing at once.
You have 30 amp service. The water heater consumes 12.5 amps by itself if the park has good voltage. If it does not, then the amps on the water heater could be higher, approaching 14 amps. The little electric heater will draw the same. The microwave 10 amps. The converter powering all those electric lights 5 amps. The refrigerator 5 amps. The television and satellite box 4 amps.
Do the math. You can see that you can easily exceed 30 amps without trying.
Each individual circuit is probably a 15 amp circuit. The water heater is basically consuming its entire capacity but already has a receptacle on it also. Plug anything else into that receptacle and that circuit breaker trips.
Your little electric heater is the same. It consumes the entire outlets capacity, but is probably wired with something else.
Bottom line, control your electric consumption and the breakers will quit tripping.
Second, the circuit breakers are tripping because the circuit is overloaded. While it is possible the breakers are weak from excessive tripping, it is not probable that all of them are failing at once.
You have 30 amp service. The water heater consumes 12.5 amps by itself if the park has good voltage. If it does not, then the amps on the water heater could be higher, approaching 14 amps. The little electric heater will draw the same. The microwave 10 amps. The converter powering all those electric lights 5 amps. The refrigerator 5 amps. The television and satellite box 4 amps.
Do the math. You can see that you can easily exceed 30 amps without trying.
Each individual circuit is probably a 15 amp circuit. The water heater is basically consuming its entire capacity but already has a receptacle on it also. Plug anything else into that receptacle and that circuit breaker trips.
Your little electric heater is the same. It consumes the entire outlets capacity, but is probably wired with something else.
Bottom line, control your electric consumption and the breakers will quit tripping.
