Today’s lesson was powering up the refrigerator. I called the Scott Motor Coach service department about four times to ask questions. I have a feeling they will hear from me fairly often in the next few weeks.So, the RV is equipped with a 30-amp power cord — not your typical household plug. You can hook up to “shore power” at an RV campground but the closest one is an hour from here.
The refrigerator can run on electricity or propane gas (also called liquid petroleum gas or LPG). It takes whatever is available. The coach battery must be charged in order for the fridge to take propane. (That’s the connection I didn’t quite get, and all the tech service people are encouraging me to spend more time reading the user manual.)
So how to charge the battery and kick in the propane flow? I used my 30 to 15 amp converter… to connect the RV power cord to my common household extension cord and plug into a house outlet.
It worked! The fridge came on. Then I also turned the RV air conditioner on, and everything shut down. 15 amps isn’t enough to power everything in there at the same time.I figured a fuse had overloaded so I looked at this…
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