After spending the whole part of the hot year fighting to stay under 20 amps in the day time I had basically given up to the fact that in hot months with everybody using the air-conditioners the electrical poles would always be hotter than normal making it easier for the 30AMP breaker to trip.
Well two weeks ago my wife said well honey if the problem is heat why not put an umbrella on it.
Occam's razor!
Two weeks later and we have not had the breaker trip once.
Will this solve every-bodies issues? I doubt it but for us at-least it has. Hope this helps some other folks.
Workinrvers said
11:53 PM Oct 22, 2013
clever!
We were at the KOA in Nashville Tn. several years ago in July. Temps were brutal and the park kept loosing breakers. They had one of the work campers stationed at the large campground breaker box with a heat gun and he could tell exactly when a breaker was about to trip just by its temperature reading. They ended up putting a small 110V window air conditioner on a step ladder pointed at the open door of the breaker box. This kept all the breakers cool enough, without causing too much electrical draw itself, that they stopped tripping. The workcamper just pulled up a lawn chair and sat in the "breeze" so he could keep an eye on things.
After spending the whole part of the hot year fighting to stay under 20 amps in the day time I had basically given up to the fact that in hot months with everybody using the air-conditioners the electrical poles would always be hotter than normal making it easier for the 30AMP breaker to trip.
Well two weeks ago my wife said well honey if the problem is heat why not put an umbrella on it.
Occam's razor!
Two weeks later and we have not had the breaker trip once.
Will this solve every-bodies issues? I doubt it but for us at-least it has. Hope this helps some other folks.
We were at the KOA in Nashville Tn. several years ago in July. Temps were brutal and the park kept loosing breakers. They had one of the work campers stationed at the large campground breaker box with a heat gun and he could tell exactly when a breaker was about to trip just by its temperature reading. They ended up putting a small 110V window air conditioner on a step ladder pointed at the open door of the breaker box. This kept all the breakers cool enough, without causing too much electrical draw itself, that they stopped tripping. The workcamper just pulled up a lawn chair and sat in the "breeze" so he could keep an eye on things.
Phil