Benefit of 50 amp over 30 amp
The wife just ask me that question and I'm not sure I know the answer,I guess more is better ,little help please ---Thank you
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pianotuna wrote:
There are ways to be able to operate the AC, water heater, and a hair drier on a 30 amp service. In fact I could run all those devices at the same time on a 15 amp shore power supply. It was not cheap to find the technology to allow me to do so.
I do have to rely that the duty cycle on the water heater is 15 minutes every 4 hours (if no water is being used) and the hair drier is not going to run all day long.2112 wrote:
As an example we can not operate our AC, electric water heater and the wife's hair drier at the same time on our 30A service without tripping the breaker.
A 50A service can handle that and more.
Could and making sense to go that route are a different matter. A large battery charger that can suck up the max the 30amp can put out and a large inverter that can run everything with a big battery bank to float the startup loads and intermittent loads but it's typically a lot easier to just turn off something.
Alternatively, many campground power pedestals have secondary 15amp plugs. We've run an extension cord to run a crock pot or electric skillet (usually outside so it doesn't fight the air/con)
