Voltage in Travel Trailer
When I am plugged into 30 amp , the meter inside coach shows 120 volts. When furnace runs meter drops to approx 117 volts. Wife. Carries a hotpot to boil water. Turning on the pot when furnace ru...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
120V to 117V because a 12V DC furnace is running.............:H
Seems obvious to me - if the OP's battery isn't fully charged the converter, rather than idling in float mode will be in charge mode, creating it's own voltage drop on the incoming 120 vac source. Regardless, this is all speculation anyway as the OP hasn't provided sufficient detail indicating total load on the system, length of cable run, cable gauge, etc, so this is all a rather pointless discussion, not unlike saying "My truck is broken, what's wrong with it?" Good grief, who knows?!! :S
