Buckrub
06-09-2013, 04:19 PM
I know y'all don't think I know anything..........and I don't know much..........but....
Yesterday wife was working in the new travel trailer. She was having to run an extension cord for her vacuum cleaner, back to the house. I asked her why she didn't plug into one of the outlets in the TT??? She said they don't work.
I was connected to power via a 30 to 15a adapter that came with it. I can run anything on 15a circuits except the A/C. Electrician is coming tomorrow to see what it would take to get me a 30a dedicated plug/outlet for it so I can run the A/C and kids can sleep in it, and we can work in it in the summer.
But I had no power. I was using a 10g heavy duty extension cord, too, the big yellow ones. I tried other stuff in the house outlet, and it was hot and good. I figured the adapter went out. I figured also it was a breaker or fuse tripped/blown in the TT. I went through all that, sweating......still nothing.
Finally, I tried a regular old extension cord, and bam.........I had power. I rummaged around and found shorter 10g and put that in, and it works. Who woulda thunk that the bad component in that setup was the extension cord? No frays, looks perfect at both ends, no cuts, no problems. It just won't work!!!
So it went in trash.
Odd.
Yesterday wife was working in the new travel trailer. She was having to run an extension cord for her vacuum cleaner, back to the house. I asked her why she didn't plug into one of the outlets in the TT??? She said they don't work.
I was connected to power via a 30 to 15a adapter that came with it. I can run anything on 15a circuits except the A/C. Electrician is coming tomorrow to see what it would take to get me a 30a dedicated plug/outlet for it so I can run the A/C and kids can sleep in it, and we can work in it in the summer.
But I had no power. I was using a 10g heavy duty extension cord, too, the big yellow ones. I tried other stuff in the house outlet, and it was hot and good. I figured the adapter went out. I figured also it was a breaker or fuse tripped/blown in the TT. I went through all that, sweating......still nothing.
Finally, I tried a regular old extension cord, and bam.........I had power. I rummaged around and found shorter 10g and put that in, and it works. Who woulda thunk that the bad component in that setup was the extension cord? No frays, looks perfect at both ends, no cuts, no problems. It just won't work!!!
So it went in trash.
Odd.