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how many fuses did your campground blow out this last weekend with all the air running??? where I was at went through about 5 or so. they were good about fixing it though, never without power for more than 10 minutes or so.

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We were at Big Stone State park and when we went to kick in the AC on Sat all it did was hummed and then shutdown. We ended up saying to heck with it and came back Sunday instead of Monday. I wonder if low voltage was our problem? I'll be hauling it into the dealer next week and if that was truly the problem, yes it will be good news, no fixit expense, but I'll be getting ahold of Big Stone and telling them what I think! If they advertise and charge extra for electrical sites, then they should have enough capacity to handle campers with AC! The reason we bought a travel trailer last year was so that we could go camping in the heat, with our tent we had stopped camping in July and Aug. Am I out of line?

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If you are running your a/c and you have low voltage you are doing damage to your unit. If you have just enough juice to get it to run but it sounds funny, turn it off. Fixing is cheap compared to repacing.

I have found this problem in quite a few campgrounds.

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buy a voltage gauge at you local dealer, it plugs into

any 110 outlet. before you bring it back to the dealer

check it at home. if it works fine then it was the camp

ground electrical...

randy

rv tech

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Roy, the plug was the big plug with the three flat blades, it matched up with the cord on my camper. I 'assumed' it was the one we needed to use. I do have an adapter we can use to plug into a 110 outlet at home, should I have used that instead?

When I called the camper place yesterday, he said that the AC would run on 110 but to make sure that it has 30 amps. I checked the fuse box in my shed and all the breakers in there say 20 amps, if I plug the camper in there and turn on the AC, will I damage the AC? or just blow a breaker?

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I have found this problem in quite a few campgrounds.

Thats discouraging. One of the reasons we bought a travel trailer was so we could do more camping during the hot summer months. Where do you normally camp, state parks or local county parks?

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I'm thinking it depends on the park and how long ago the electric was dug in. Big Stone is an older smaller park and when they put in the electric they probably didn't forsee the demand of all the big campers nowadays.

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Roy, the plug was the big plug with the three flat blades, it matched up with the cord on my camper.

That is the 30 amp and it is the only one you should use with the A/C

I 'assumed' it was the one we needed to use.

I do have an adapter we can use to plug into a 110 outlet at home, should I have used that instead?

No

When I called the camper place yesterday, he said that the AC would run on 110 but to make sure that it has 30 amps. I checked the fuse box in my shed and all the breakers in there say 20 amps, if I plug the camper in there and turn on the AC, will I damage the AC? or just blow a breaker?

Both, do not run the A/C on the 20 amp. 30 amp only.

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amps are important, but the gauge will give you a idea of

what the campground useage is. if the gauge is reading 105

volts you would know that there is a lot of use in the

park. like a brown out when there is not enough volts in

the line. i am not a electrician! but i have seen this

at a few of the older parks.

randy aka bbqhead

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