Basics of Electricity

Basics of Electricity

Electricity

Your trailer either has a 30 amp or a 50 amp plug. If you have a 30 amp plug you are very limited on what you can run. Generally that means you can use 2 big appliances at a time. That means if you have the AC going, and the electric water heater on, and you try using the microwave you will pop a breaker.

50 amp has 3.333 times the power available vs the 30 amp, so you can run 3 AC units at a time, plus the water heater and microwave.

You can buy adapters (dog bones) to go from one type of plug to the other. If you plug a 50 amp trailer into a 30 amp plug you will have the same limitations as a 30 amp trailer. If you plug a 30 amp trailer into a 50 amp plug you will still have the same limitations as a 30 amp plug. If you plug either into a regular 120v plug then you will have half the power as a 30 amp plug, so maybe you can run 1 appliance at a time.

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