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partsman01
Jul 07, 2017Explorer
Well been busy, took off the 12 gauge cord I was using, and hooked up an old RV cord I salvaged from an old trailer.
So using it as an extension hooked into an outlet that has a 20 amp breaker and I am hoping the previous owner used the right wire gauge to this outlet, I found with the A/C running the voltage according to the meter plugged into the outlet shows it drops to about 110V which is in the red zone, so not sure if I will get to it, but down at my garage which is a ways away I am thinking I could run a 30 amp breaker in the sub panel in there and see how much cord I would need to reach it, think is that would cross the driveway and the vehicles would run over it, so would need to raise it up high to clear vehicles, but I still need to drag my homelite generator out and see how it goes running A/C off it, I believe it is a 3500 peak, and 3000W running.
So using it as an extension hooked into an outlet that has a 20 amp breaker and I am hoping the previous owner used the right wire gauge to this outlet, I found with the A/C running the voltage according to the meter plugged into the outlet shows it drops to about 110V which is in the red zone, so not sure if I will get to it, but down at my garage which is a ways away I am thinking I could run a 30 amp breaker in the sub panel in there and see how much cord I would need to reach it, think is that would cross the driveway and the vehicles would run over it, so would need to raise it up high to clear vehicles, but I still need to drag my homelite generator out and see how it goes running A/C off it, I believe it is a 3500 peak, and 3000W running.
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