Power Management in a Trailer While Parked in a RV Park.

Parked in a RV Park, we have to be adaptive to the size of the power supplied at the RV site.  RV Park power usually is provided in three flavors, 20amp, 30amp, 50amp.  The 20amp service limits us to only items that can be run off of a extension cord, and this means the hot water heater is switched to gas only, and no air-conditioning.  The 30amp service can run everything but not all at the same time, air-conditioning and the electric fry pan together will trip the outside circuit.  The 50amp service will run everything in trailer with no restrictions.  In the colder climates the space heaters that we use, don’t like working with the coffee pot on the same in house circuit.  Today, and earlier this week, the air-conditioner has been on, and the electric fry pan was used, and the outside circuit breaker tripped, and turned off power to the entire trailer.  Whenever a circuit breaker trips, we have to start counting the watts that the appliances are using and modify our usage to keep under the breakers tripping point.

The electric fry pan, with the white base, uses 1100watts, or 10amps, and the rice cooker, in the rear, uses 700watts.  With the TVs, computers, water heaters, crockpot, coffeepot, electric pressure cooker/slow cooker, and air conditioning, we count watts when we think about it.

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