We've been sitting in a state park at the same site for 2wks...great spot, lovely time.
Yesterday afternoon a 5er pulled into the site behind us, and plugged into the second plug on the power pole. The guy plugged, unplugged, swapped cords, tried a 110v adapter, 2 or 3 different dogbones...said he had no power.
I step back into our coach...now I have no AC. I reset the breaker, and my microwave doesn't come on, along with my surround sound A/V rcver and my coffee maker.
The guy on the next site down lost power at the same time, and unplugged, shaking his head. His surge protector read 230VAC.
5er now has power, I have power, but a bunch of stuff is cooked.
I'll be ordering one of the plug-in monitors/suppressors this morning.
Jim
2005 Pace Arrow 36D
Very Understanding Wife
2 Boxers
4 Cats
Lobstah wrote: We've been sitting in a state park at the same site for 2wks...great spot, lovely time.
Yesterday afternoon a 5er pulled into the site behind us, and plugged into the second plug on the power pole. The guy plugged, unplugged, swapped cords, tried a 110v adapter, 2 or 3 different dogbones...said he had no power.
I step back into our coach...now I have no AC. I reset the breaker, and my microwave doesn't come on, along with my surround sound A/V rcver and my coffee maker.
The guy on the next site down lost power at the same time, and unplugged, shaking his head. His surge protector read 230VAC.
5er now has power, I have power, but a bunch of stuff is cooked.
I'll be ordering one of the plug-in monitors/suppressors this morning.
Jim
ouch!
I ordered one a week ago for our summer travels.
Hope your stuff cools and works!
be sure to order a multi function surge protector. not the $90- jobby.
sorry for your problem but time and time again posters here report, "I have camped for 40 years and never had one and never needed one".
bumpy
That's why I used that title..."lesson learned".
I'm still curious why my intellitec EMS didn't pick it up, but I haven't dug out the manual yet.
Good news is the electrician came by and said that he's working to find the source, but we are supposed to file a report, and their insurance should cover it.
Last night about 10pm we were getting ready to go to bed, the air conditioner in hte bed room shut off. I checked the breakers inside and all was ok. went outside to check the post breakers, and EMS-PT50c surge protector and saw that the lights were on on it, so that meant that I had power. I saw it was flashing a E4 code, and that is for low voltage. I continued to read the flashing codes and saw I had 104vac, which is why it shut down. After to a neighbor who told me that their AC fan was running slow, it told him about the low voltage and he went and shut off everything inside. I went and check the voltage and it was down to 71Vac. Well about 11:30pm the power came back up and the EMS kicked bad on and all was well. Several site had trailers on them that were not occupied, I hope none of them lost items due to the low power.
Sure was glad I had my EMS-PT50C!
Steve & Linda
Son married (1 DIL, 3 granddaughters 1 grandson)
Daughter can now be called a Teacher.
Miami Co. Kansas
2004 F350 CC dually 8ft bed 6.0 PSD
2009 Bighorn 3670RL
B&W under bed hitch with 18k companion hitch
Did you contact the Rangers to have them find out how far the electric problem went? For the voltage to jump to 230 volts on a 30 AMP plug shows a wire short to neutral. If the guy next to you was on a 50 AMP plug this is with in the operation range for a 50 AMP plug unless one leg went low and the other went high or as above you lost neutral.
I've spoken with the park electrician. He said that if someone takes a 3-pronged 120v plug, and cuts the prong off then plugs it in reversed, that will cause this. So far, 4 campers affected. The guy with the surge protector also lost a VCR. My AV receiver just got added to the list.
Lobstah wrote: We've been sitting in a state park at the same site for 2wks...great spot, lovely time.
Yesterday afternoon a 5er pulled into the site behind us, and plugged into the second plug on the power pole. The guy plugged, unplugged, swapped cords, tried a 110v adapter, 2 or 3 different dogbones...said he had no power.
I step back into our coach...now I have no AC. I reset the breaker, and my microwave doesn't come on, along with my surround sound A/V rcver and my coffee maker.
The guy on the next site down lost power at the same time, and unplugged, shaking his head. His surge protector read 230VAC.
5er now has power, I have power, but a bunch of stuff is cooked.
I'll be ordering one of the plug-in monitors/suppressors this morning.
Jim
Hi Jim,
OUCH!!! That is a hard and expensive lesson to learn. When we were researching before buying our RV I read many posts about this happening so one of the first purchases was the surge guard. Hope you didn't lose to much and that it all works out for you.
Todd
Todd, Shirley, and the "Maddawgs" min-pins Precious and Buster Brown
2011 Itasca Cambria 30C
2011 Demco KarKaddy 460SS
TST 507 RV TPMS
"if there is anything left when we are gone, then we miscalculated"
I've never heard of reversing a plug causing this and if it was it would only affect the unit it was plugged into not units around them. Today plugs are designed not to be able to be plugged in that way. I think he was just making something up so no one blames the park.
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