Luca1369
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Hi all,
I've been going through a lot of plugs lately, the male ones at the end of my 30A shore power cord. One about every three months or so. The plug gets hot and internal damage is done until the wire end and the prong/tab fries and my power goes out. When this happens no breakers inside the rig trip, but the one on the pedestal does. In the summer I'm running one AC (front AC during the day, rear AC at night), a desktop computer, TV, and the fridge. In the winter I'm running the front overhead heat strip (usually just at night), desktop computer, TV, and fridge.
I'm been at the same park for over a year and this has happened in three different spaces. Three times this has happened while plugged into a 30A outlet on a pedestal (one time the female outlet on the pedestal was burnt as well and the park replaced it). The last time this happened, just a couple of weeks ago, I was plugged into a 50A outlet on a pedestal (I was using a 30A female to 50A male adaptor (both the male 30A plug on my shore power cord and the 30A female end of the adaptor were burnt.
The guy that does the maintenance at the park says I'm drawing too much power, but I'm not tripping an internal breaker. I'm trying to watch my power usage but I have to wonder if the problem is simply running the AC 24/7.
Can anybody tell me what's going on?
Thanks in advance.
I've been going through a lot of plugs lately, the male ones at the end of my 30A shore power cord. One about every three months or so. The plug gets hot and internal damage is done until the wire end and the prong/tab fries and my power goes out. When this happens no breakers inside the rig trip, but the one on the pedestal does. In the summer I'm running one AC (front AC during the day, rear AC at night), a desktop computer, TV, and the fridge. In the winter I'm running the front overhead heat strip (usually just at night), desktop computer, TV, and fridge.
I'm been at the same park for over a year and this has happened in three different spaces. Three times this has happened while plugged into a 30A outlet on a pedestal (one time the female outlet on the pedestal was burnt as well and the park replaced it). The last time this happened, just a couple of weeks ago, I was plugged into a 50A outlet on a pedestal (I was using a 30A female to 50A male adaptor (both the male 30A plug on my shore power cord and the 30A female end of the adaptor were burnt.
The guy that does the maintenance at the park says I'm drawing too much power, but I'm not tripping an internal breaker. I'm trying to watch my power usage but I have to wonder if the problem is simply running the AC 24/7.
Can anybody tell me what's going on?
Thanks in advance.