I think I have a perfectly good explanation why I was blowing those main breakers. This motorhome is powered by 220 volts @ 30 amps from the outside post. I went over to the converter box just to make sure and I was running a 20 amp main when it should have been a 30. How I got along using the 20 all this time, you got me?
I forgot to turn the roof heater off when I left a few days ago. When I put the new 30 amp breaker on and flicked the switch, the roof heater came on. Lucky me, that would have blown new breakers before? So, it might be the right amperage? A sticker from the original owner read that it should be a 30.
Before my presentation in at Local Roots in Caldwell, I stopped by Stoney's RV and picked up a tandem 20amp + 15 amp breaker. At Local Roots, I opened up my motorhome notes and found the main to be a 30. I was a computer repair specialist with my own business and while I was in college, I was required to take a basic electricity class.
Where I'm fuzzy now, I was then wondering if the main has to be the same amperage as the motorhome's input? Is it really that simple? Well, I've got the 30/15 in now and my roof heat pump powered on really healthy. And the converter is running silent for the first time in 9 months.
This week is going to warm up. And it's going to be dedicated to my car. I don't want to speculate on what's going wrong. But I do know that the first thing that I have to do is lift it and have an inspection of the underside. I'm pretty sure that I have to do a visual inspection of the exhaust system and feel if there's anything going on with the vacuum tubes. Apparently, there's more of them that I previously thought.
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