Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

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Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

July 26, 2018, 12:21:24 am

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are having a great summer of camping and not on this site (too much!)

Question:
We will be using an adaptor to plug our 30 amp cord into a standard socket for the next few days. Would that provide enough juice to run the a/c? Thanks.

Pete

Re: Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

Reply #1 – July 26, 2018, 01:10:32 am

For most AC units, yes. Make sure you have a beefy extension cord if using one. With the AC going it will not take much else to go over 15A.

Re: Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

Reply #2 – July 26, 2018, 02:50:31 am

Quote from: Peter Weisel - July 26, 2018, 12:21:24 am

We will be using an adaptor to plug our 30 amp cord into a standard socket for the next few days. Would that provide enough juice to run the a/c? Thanks.

To increase the available power for the A/C, operate the refrigerator on propane and turn the converter off, using the battery and solar, if you have it, for 12-volt power. The converter and refrigerator can be run at night, if the A/C isn't being used.
As suggested, a 10-gauge extension cord is advised, I use standard 30-amp RV extension cords with an 30-amp to 20-amp adaptor. I prefer the wired adaptors, they do not overheat the way the single piece adaptors do.

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Re: Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

Reply #3 – July 26, 2018, 10:03:23 am

I can run mine on low and medium. But trips my breaker if I try high.

Re: Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

Reply #4 – July 26, 2018, 12:29:09 pm

I have run mine on High with everything else turned off, (except the refrigerator -did not think of that Thanks Larry) I exercise our roof AC normally with generator to exercise the generator too. We generally do not camp where there is 30amp power and hardly camp where there is 120 20amp power. Mostly we have power when we are storing which is indoor and we can not use solar. We are plugged in now in front of storage and a couple days ago tested the roof AC. We are plugged into a 100 ft extension cord and ran it with the refrigerator on although I am sure that there was some voltage drop. I would not recommend doing this but I did for testing the AC. Mine AC fan is rubbing slightly and I wanted to see where when it is running.

Karen~Liam
98~MB

Re: Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

Reply #5 – July 26, 2018, 09:34:48 pm

Also, make sure you are aware of anything else that may be plugged into the same 15A circuit that your outlet is on. If something on that circuit get switched on while the A/C is running its breaker could trip.

Art

Re: Will a/c work on a 115v plug in situation?

Reply #6 – July 26, 2018, 10:00:12 pm

"We will be using an adaptor to plug our 30 amp cord into a standard socket..."

It pays to know what your power source is capable of! Normally you should expect 120v circuits to provide a nominal 15a. Given that, it's reasonable to expect that you can run the A/C with that current, presuming no other loads.

On my first trip to Alaska in '81 we were trying to make a couple of slices of toast and couldn't understand why the park power breaker kept tripping... until I discovered that it was rated for 10amps.

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