Electrical Gremlins

[John]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Harold Prescott"
wrote:
>
> I just had the same thing happen. It turned out to be a blown breaker
> on one leg of the shore power. Reset the breaker at the shore power
> end, and I don't know why it blew in the first place.
>
> Harold Prescott
> "85 FC35
> Rackerby, Ca.
>
>


Bingo! This seems to be the problem, although I reset their breaker
and reattached my cable, so something a little more "permanent"
happened to the park's shore power receptical. I ran my 50 amp
extension line over to another shore power receptical at an unused spot
and everything came back to life.

As an aside, do most of you run your gas heat when camped out at a
park? We are in Florida, so right now is about as cold as it ever gets
(mid 30's or so). The gas heat hasn't been used in the 2 years that we
have had the 'bird and I am reluctant to start it without having
someone inspect and start it first. Most of the factory electric
heaters are caput so I've been using some small portable heaters to
keep the chill off at night.

Thoughts? Other than the obvious, which is that we are pretty cautious
to make sure that the small heaters don't overheat (they seem to be
quite safe even if they don't throw off a lot of heat).