{"id":21390,"date":"2008-12-15T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:02:44","slug":"thinking-outside-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/thinking-outside-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Outside the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked the <a href=\"http:\/\/escapees.com\/\">Escapees<\/a> forum tonight if there was some way for me to tap into the 50A outlet on my power pedestal so I could run my heater. The answer I got was that it was possible, dangerous, and expensive. The solution became more and more complicated until someone suggested that I get a heater with a lower amp draw.<\/p>\n<p>Which made me pull out my manual, whereby I discovered that by using a lower setting, I can reduce both of the heaters&#8217; draws from 12.5 to 7.5A!!! Talk about a DOH moment that had me both blushing and laughing. Even at a lower setting, I&#8217;m still getting more heat from the two of them than I would from just the big one on its own.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to be humbled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked the Escapees forum tonight if there was some way for me to tap into the 50A outlet on my power pedestal so I could run my heater. The answer I got was that it was possible, dangerous, and expensive. The solution became more and more complicated until someone suggested that I get a [&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-21390","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":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}