travel trailer electric power
not real confident about electric power for my travel trailer, however I am confused as to why my breaker goes off when I have a coffee maker and toaster plugged in and in use. How can I improve this...
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Bobbo wrote:afidel wrote:
Not picking on you but why do people keep mentioning the fridge? When it's cycling my 6.4 fridge draws a whopping 50W, less than half an Amp. The water heater I can see being a huge deal if running on electric or in electric boost mode, heating 6 gallons of water takes a ton of energy.
Because, when the fridge is on electric and is actively cooling, it is running a high wattage heating element to vaporize the ammonia. It can easily draw 10 amps at 120v, or 1200W. If yours can heat a heating element on 50W, you should buy stock in that company.
well, I believe neither is correct. the heating element for a fridge is on the order of 300W, or 3A on most RV fridges.
