Major ICE storm

[David Brady]

Hi Bob,

My guess would be that you're trying to draw too many amps thru
a small gauge wire. For a 35 ft run with 50 amp service you should
use #4 or maybe #6. Using only #10 may be resulting in too much
of a voltage drop resulting in the inverters refusal to go into bulk
charge.

David Brady
'02 LXi, Smokey
Va, soon to be NC

adieu2y wrote:
> Bob, Happy to hear you are surviving the storm. With your BB outside
> you must be doing better than most.
> We're in Co. visiting our grand children and trying to survive 7 - 10
> degree with our Gen. and Wabasto running non- stop. We have tried to
> run shore power to the coach so I could free load off our children's
> electricity instead of my diesel.
> Why doesn't the coach like our set up? We ran 35 ft. of #10/4 from
> the service panel to a 50 amp female box and pluged in the shore power
> cord. My lights show green but the inverters do not show any bulk
> /float charging. Any thoughts? Jack VanDenBerg 05 lxi in Boulder.
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Carol Howald`"
> wrote:
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>> Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" of
>> ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. All
>> electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage and the
>> place looks like
>> a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started the
>> kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension cords. we
>> powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights hot
>> plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. for 45
>> hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in everything)..Can't wait
>> to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # air
>> over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # jack
>> stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I ocasionally use
>> 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use a 4000
>> # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck!
>> Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol
>> 93pt40,Il.
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