rookieRV
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2005 Winnie Sunova ?35N class A. The newly installed CONverter and DC batts seem to work fine. Lately, however, the AC appliances (two Air conditioners, one micro/convection) have been experiencing ?power pull? cycling noises time and again (akin to ?brownouts?... and , no, we never run three of the major appliances simultaneously, staying within the 30 amp limit of both the lot electrical service post and the RV itself).
I decidedly stayed ?home? (RV) one fine day, and the repetitious cycling noise gravitated to a ?on-off? noise of 30 times in ten seconds or so, to finally rest off (save the DC lights).
I checked the shore plug outside... no burn marks whatsoever on the plug?s three terminals, wires inside of the plug had no signs of corrosion, all well connected. To confirm if things were wrong on the campsite?s end or my end, I started up and switched over to generator. Not only did Air conditioner run fine, but NO ?pulling? /?cycling? noises! 8)
Camp employee first inspected the next distribution/ circuit breaker box serving three nearby lots (appearently they have the AC distribution ?Christmas treed? eight ways to Sunday). Flipping one circuit breaker ?out there? (not at the panel box that DIRECTLY serves OUR lot, mind you, but ANOTHER panel box that services ours amoungst THREE lots, w/ one breaker for each lot, so ?tis SAID) got power going back on (he attributed it to an additional switch behind that three-lot circuit breaker within the panel... ever heard of switches BEHIND a circuit breaker? I thought that a circuit breaker WAS a switch!). :
Management gets electrician out, electrician believes that we are idiots who overuse appliances beyond rated 30 amps (my wife RELIGIOUSLY makes sure of using only one air while she cooks). Says turn on your two ACs simultaneously, see how much they pull. 21 amps. ?Gee?, I said, ?That?s the same amount that my indicator inside says!? ?Well, appliances can demand more as they get older?, he replies. My amps current meter on the fritz too, huh? :
A laughable part... the manager says that power demands get worse AFTER 2/3 of the clients here have made their mass exidus back North.. let?s see, over 75% people gone, under 25% using two air conditioners continuously... 25 X 2= 50%... DEMANDS? ???
THEN she and staff say, ?maybe it?s your power INverter? Wait minute, my INverter only comes into play when I?m running off generator/batts, no? When major appliances are hooked into shore/elec grid power, why/how would an INverter play ANY role? Hmmm, Air conditioner 110v, shore 110v AC.. I need to INvert, what, WHY?? Then something abt a ?relay? in my RV... How?s it all work fine with MY generator, but not THEIR shore? ???
Thank goodness for specialists... one who I have hired here for contract RV maintenence told me that some of the electrical lots/plots/grids in this campsite are old and in disrepair... That, or the relatively new ownership intends on converting to a 60+ mobile home community, who knows?
It?s 12 midnight, and our AC appliances are still occasionally turning off/on (DC lights remain fine). Please tell me what?s up here?
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I decidedly stayed ?home? (RV) one fine day, and the repetitious cycling noise gravitated to a ?on-off? noise of 30 times in ten seconds or so, to finally rest off (save the DC lights).
I checked the shore plug outside... no burn marks whatsoever on the plug?s three terminals, wires inside of the plug had no signs of corrosion, all well connected. To confirm if things were wrong on the campsite?s end or my end, I started up and switched over to generator. Not only did Air conditioner run fine, but NO ?pulling? /?cycling? noises! 8)
Camp employee first inspected the next distribution/ circuit breaker box serving three nearby lots (appearently they have the AC distribution ?Christmas treed? eight ways to Sunday). Flipping one circuit breaker ?out there? (not at the panel box that DIRECTLY serves OUR lot, mind you, but ANOTHER panel box that services ours amoungst THREE lots, w/ one breaker for each lot, so ?tis SAID) got power going back on (he attributed it to an additional switch behind that three-lot circuit breaker within the panel... ever heard of switches BEHIND a circuit breaker? I thought that a circuit breaker WAS a switch!). :
Management gets electrician out, electrician believes that we are idiots who overuse appliances beyond rated 30 amps (my wife RELIGIOUSLY makes sure of using only one air while she cooks). Says turn on your two ACs simultaneously, see how much they pull. 21 amps. ?Gee?, I said, ?That?s the same amount that my indicator inside says!? ?Well, appliances can demand more as they get older?, he replies. My amps current meter on the fritz too, huh? :
A laughable part... the manager says that power demands get worse AFTER 2/3 of the clients here have made their mass exidus back North.. let?s see, over 75% people gone, under 25% using two air conditioners continuously... 25 X 2= 50%... DEMANDS? ???
THEN she and staff say, ?maybe it?s your power INverter? Wait minute, my INverter only comes into play when I?m running off generator/batts, no? When major appliances are hooked into shore/elec grid power, why/how would an INverter play ANY role? Hmmm, Air conditioner 110v, shore 110v AC.. I need to INvert, what, WHY?? Then something abt a ?relay? in my RV... How?s it all work fine with MY generator, but not THEIR shore? ???
Thank goodness for specialists... one who I have hired here for contract RV maintenence told me that some of the electrical lots/plots/grids in this campsite are old and in disrepair... That, or the relatively new ownership intends on converting to a 60+ mobile home community, who knows?
It?s 12 midnight, and our AC appliances are still occasionally turning off/on (DC lights remain fine). Please tell me what?s up here?
edit by staff - changed message icon to topic solved