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rjjr's avatar
rjjr
Explorer
Aug 01, 2014

New owner electrical problem/question

I parked my motorhome in our storage unit and tried to plug into a 110 outlet. It immediately tripped the circuit breaker. I was using the 50 amp shore power cord with an adapter to plug right into the outlet. It's about 25' long.

I checked and rechecked everything in the coach and nothing was turned on. I even had the fridge switched over to gas only. I wouldn't think the battery charger would pull enough amps to trip the breaker.

Any ideas?
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  • calamus's avatar
    calamus
    Explorer
    Aug 01, 2014
    it WH for Water heater! If the water was HOT why would you need to heat it? Sorry a Plumber Pet peeve. The outlet you are pluging into is a GFI? The more they trip the weaker they get So the outlet may need changed also. If a new one trips you my have an issue in the camper
  • ScottG's avatar
    ScottG
    Nomad
    Aug 01, 2014
    Are you tripping a breaker or a GFCI?
    If it's the latter then you have a problem someplace - probably the RV fridge.
  • YC_1's avatar
    YC_1
    Nomad
    Aug 01, 2014
    hwh hot water heater

    Yes your battery charger could be enough to trip a small breaker. You did not mentions the size of the breaker.

    Your panel may allow you to set the charging level from 10% to 100% for example. At 100% it could easily overload a normal outlet if the batteries are being charged from a low state.

    Or if the breaker is a gfci it may not like the setup as well.
  • mccsix's avatar
    mccsix
    Explorer
    Aug 01, 2014
    Easy to forget about the hot water heater HWH, done it a few times.
  • rjjr's avatar
    rjjr
    Explorer
    Aug 01, 2014
    newman fulltimer wrote:
    Is your hwh off on the electric side



    what is hwh?


    No idea what else is on the circuit. I really just want to keep the batteries charged. Should I buy a little charger and hook it up to the batteries?
  • calamus's avatar
    calamus
    Explorer
    Aug 01, 2014
    Bad Circut breaker if you have plugged the coach in else where with no issues.
  • Fleet_Man's avatar
    Fleet_Man
    Explorer
    Aug 01, 2014
    You should be OK, we have used the 110/15 amp to 50 amp adapter many times with no problems. Do you know of anything in the storage unit on that circuit that has it at capacity? Try another outlet that you know is not providing power to anything else.

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