Low Shore Voltage
Last week we ran into an issue where the campground shore power for our site was only coming in at 104 volts(30 amps). We have a Progressive surge protector and it would not let the power flow. Report...
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GordonThree wrote:
Depends on the location maybe? In the southwest with dry air, as soon as the Sun is gone, the heat is gone. Here in Michigan, it'll stay 80-90 deg well past midnight. The Sun spent all day heating a huge mass of very humid air, and that air keeps things uncomfortable.
I ended up at a private campground just after the 4th, and it was 94 the day I rolled in. The voltage at the post was also 94, but would dip as low as 85. Few days later the humidity broke and temps dropped into the low 80s, voltage was back at 115 as most air con units were shut off.
Gal behind the counter says yea, we get that sometimes when it's hot out. You're welcome to move over to a rustic site and run the generator.
Kicker is, the local electric utility BUILT and OWNS the campground, located on the backwaters of a large hydroelectric plant. They let the County run it.
We were in Michigan last week during the "heat wave" and saw the voltage sag as the sun came up. It bottomed out around 11-12am and we broke out the generator because even with the autoformer, we were below 107v. Then went back up as the sun went down. I checked around 7pm and we were back up to 114v, so we turned off the generator and plugged back in.
It might not be as quick in a humid environment but without the sun beating down, the air/con units catch up and start cycling off.
