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Camper will not run appliances on 30 amp?


We have a 2006 travel trailer that always blows a breaker when the A/C, fridge, and water heater are on electric. We have to be careful with A/C only and then add a skillet, or coffeepot, or hair dyer. I'm told we should be able to run the A/C, fridge and water heater on 30 amp service at rv parks with no problem. (Others we travel with have no problem) What can we do to improve the use? Fridge and water heater can run off propane but since we are paying for electric we like to use it...

It is easy to calculate your amp usage and based on that see if you get enough amps, just keep in mind that the weakest link(breaker) in the system will blow.
So if your main RV breaker is 30Amp, and the camping one is 20, you have 20Amp to use.

Now if you look onto all your appliances, it will give you the power consumption in Watt (W), kilowatt (kW), sometimes also referred to as VA or kVA.

The amps used at a certain time is the sum of all power consumptions in watt (or VA) + sum of all power consumption in KW or kVA times thousand.

Then divide that figure by the voltage (110V in US, 230V in EU).

That will give you a rough Idea of the Amps drawn at that moment.

If you are way under that, either the breaker is "tired" and need to be replaced, or you have something going on on yuor high voltage circuit. If that is the case I would have it checked out by a professional as this could lead to bigger problems like fire or electrocution!

Hope this helps!

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