Power issues, breaker trips always now?

hohenwald48 wrote:
There are some things a good electrician could do to get you more than 30 amp service. However, some of them are "non-standard" installations and would depend on who has jurisdiction over electrical installations in your area and how flexible they are.

Although your extension cord is only 50' you are still using another 50' (or is it 100'?) of permanently installed "extension cord" which may or may not be up to the task. Voltage drop will also be impacted by the size of that wire. It's been my experience that a lot of ranches and farms have old wiring installed by folks who might not be fully qualified.

It sounds like your best bet, at the moment, is to lessen the load as much as possible, maybe run a second cord from another circuit to carry the heater load and check for "phantom" loads. ie: those you might not be aware of like battery charger, water heater, refer, heat tapes and other devices that draw on your available current.

It's possible you have a bad breaker but that is a very rare event regardless of what you read on internet forums.

Your next challenge will be finding a good, qualified electrician who is able to be "creative" in finding a safe and economical solution to your problem in the long run.

One more thing. The closer your trailer is to the breaker box (not just the outlet) the better off you will be and the cheaper a permanent solution will be. You might want to think about a move.

Yeah, the ranch is definitely old and a bit sketchy with the way some of it is done. If 30amp is okay to run my 50 on, then I'm okay with not pushing limits for a 50. Honestly though I'd rather solar power or something. This property isn't mine, I don't know how many years I'll be here, but I don't think I'll get much solar for the price of installing the hook up.

I found a friend nearby who has trailers, who is gonna take a look at mine sometime soon, and help me switch the gas bottles so I can put the fridge to gas and see if that helps the breaker and fridge to work better.

I'd love to be closer to a breaker box but there wasn't anywhere else on the property I could put my trailer unfortunately. My only way out is across someone else's property behind us that's currently just land, so if they start to build sometime on that lot behind us, I gotta move.