50 amp coach on 30 amp power

I have several dogbones and use them when necessary. We have been able knock the morning chill off using one small heater and being judicious when using other items - coffee pot, tea pot...
Switched to propane for the water heater yesterday.
Temperature is dropping (3pm Thursday afternoon) so I've switched to propane furnace. Warm and toasty here. Supposed to be below freezing tonight and tomorrow night, then go back up. We'll be heading south for Oklahoma Sunday or Monday.
Thanks for all the input and suggestions.

GM

Grey Mountain wrote:
Being Comanche, I'm just gonna start a campfire in the middle of the front area.

My people, the original full timers, have been doing that for generations.

GM

That's funny! Seems like we all started out as full timers way back when.

Sam Spade wrote:

The adapter might overheat.
The 30 amp receptacle might overheat.

It is really NOT good to exceed a 25 amp draw on a 30 amp service because you don't know how good the feed really is.

Excellent advice. Grab the 30 amp adapter after using high amperage for a while. It will almost certainly be hot to the touch. That is going to start melting the adapter as well as overheating the receptacle. Campground electrical get a lot of use and abuse, the connections are usually well worn and not making the best connection. Poor connections = heat. Their circuit breakers are also well worn.

I carry spare 30 and 50 amp plugs for that very reason. We were parked on a farm plugged into a grain elevator this summer. DW called and said we lost power. Turns out she tripped the 90 amp breaker on the grain elevator! Lets see; 3 A/C units, AquaHot 4000 watts, microwave & electric skillet etc. all at the same time!
We had an impromptu class on electrical consumption....:S

Grey Mountain wrote:
Being Comanche, I'm just gonna strt a campfire in the middle of the front area.

My people, the original full timers, have been doing that for generations.

GM

I have seen a towable with a potbelly stove installed. Your way may work but I think a chimney flue would control the smoke better than a blanket! :W

Being Comanche, I'm just gonna strt a campfire in the middle of the front area.

My people, the original full timers, have been doing that for generations.

GM

I really LOVE our CheapHeat!!!

It’s keeping me warm right now.

When I read these post, and the use of electric space heaters all kinds of bad thoughts pass through my head. Dad was a Firefighter and strongly disliked electric space heaters, saw too many fires started by their use.
I prefer my Cheap Heat System, it will automatically switch from 220v 50 amp down to 120v 30 amp system. On 50 amp I get 5,000 watts of heat on 30 amp I get 1,800 watts over correctly sized cables. on the 30 amp 1,800 watt setting it will maintain 65 degrees in our 32' 5er down to the low 30's outside temp. If I need to raise the temp, I simply switch to gas and raise the temp, then go back to electric. I will say I have very seldom needed to use gas.

Grey Mountain wrote:
It is not cold enough to use either the propane-driven furnace of the electric heat pumps.

There is a device that allows both those pieces of heating equipment to be used no matter what the temperature.

It is called a THERMOSTAT. :)

AND if it really is not THAT cold, ONE of the heaters would probably be plenty.

Grey Mountain wrote:
What happens if we exceed the 30 amps available? Say, two small heaters that will use 15 amps each all by themselves.
GM

The two heaters use 25 amps total. the fridg about 3-4.. The converter may be enough to do you in and for sure the water heater will

What happens.. Well if you are outside on the service side you might hear a CLICK.

If you are inside. and of course it's 3 am. and raining...

You get dressed and go out and reset the park pedestal breaker.

Seriously that is the worst (Short term) that will happen.

NOTE I have both 30 and 50 amp cords for my Rig (The 30 amp cord has a 50 amp outlet with a jumper wire).. I keep a spare 30 amp plug cause those can burn up.. in your case keep a spare dogbone adapter.

And "Burn up" is a bit dramatic (they melt. no fire).

I also have the ability to "Split" power to two park outlets

Oh.. I mentioned the water heater.. Mine is 375 Watts. not 1500 but 375.

Suggestion.. On those two space heaters.. Put one on LOW.

Better suggestion: PUt both of 'em on LOW..

The worst that can happen using a 1500 Watt space heater on an RV outlet is a fire.. the outlets are not all that good when the amps hit double digits.. I've had one fail.. Seen two more that failed Due to the design of the outlet.. (I have special 15/20 amp rated outlets 12 ga wire bent around a screw.. one to a circuit breaker)

You should be able to "live" quite nicely on 30 amps.