{"id":21377,"date":"2008-11-23T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=136"},"modified":"2016-09-11T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T09:45:50","slug":"kablooeies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/kablooeies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kablooeies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah. Every time I get smug about some RVing aspect or another, I make a goof that gives me a good dose of humility!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been running two heaters on my 30A without any issue. I can even run the microwave when the two are going.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I decided to vacuum the coach (I must be coming down with something). Only one heater was plugged in, so I decided that I was okay to run the vacuum. Why bother pulling out the manual to see how many amps it draws. It can&#8217;t possibly run more amps than a microwave and two space heaters combined, right?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just glad that I blew a breaker, not a fuse.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NCS0DE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=travwithmir05-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000NCS0DE\">Black &amp; Decker HV9010P Retriever Pet-Series Cyclonic-Action Corded Dustbuster and Blower<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=travwithmir05-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000NCS0DE\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/> that works very well&#8230; and draws 6.25AMPs. Add that to the 12.5A drawn by the space heater we&#8217;re already at 19, and then add the computer and, waitaminute, we&#8217;re still nowhere near 30A.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to the second thing I learned: the outlet above the bed in the backroom and the outlet above the fridge in the kitchen are on the same circuit, which my 19A apparently overloaded. Hence the kablooey.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s never a dull day when you&#8217;re RVing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah. Every time I get smug about some RVing aspect or another, I make a goof that gives me a good dose of humility! I&#8217;ve been running two heaters on my 30A without any issue. I can even run the microwave when the two are going. This morning, I decided to vacuum the coach (I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,1276,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-oliver-bc","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}