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Power cord at home

Yahoo Message Number: 9176
Hi All, I have a rather newbie question again. I have a 15 amp cord plugged into a 15 amp outlet that I would like to connect to the coach, mostly for batt charging and lites when I need them. I hooked up after the coach had been at the house for a couple of days and the voltage drop was reading out 105 on both sides and building slowly It was drawing about 13 amps so I unplugged the cord.
I think the batts were pulling a rather large charge at the time and was wondering, if I have fully charged batts and try this again, will I be OK or is it best to forget the small extention cord? I have a '99 Affinity that is full of electroinc that I sure don't want to fowl up.

I only need the power cord while at the house to load/unload and clean up, and I guess in the winter time I should run the heat to keep things from freezing, usually only a few days.
This arrangement worked fine on my old coach , but it was rather basic without all the electronic.
Thanks, Larry

Re: Power cord at home

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Yahoo Message Number: 9177
set up power sharing for no more than 15 amps. it easy with a link 2000. I had a 98 affinity with the link 2000 and did what you want to do. be sure refer is off and the electric hot water.

john drebick affinity 2003, 6194

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Yahoo Message Number: 9182
-John, thanks for the reply. I'm not clear about your comment" set up power shareing for only 15amps" If I understand you, just allow only a small amount of items to be on [refer, hotwater heat all off] or is there something on the 2000 that allows for reduced-load sharing? Thanks, Larry- In Country-Coach-Owners@yahoogroups.com, "john drebick" wrote:

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set up power sharing for no more than 15 amps. it easy with a link

2000. I

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had a 98 affinity with the link 2000 and did what you want to do.

be sure

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refer is off and the electric hot water.

john drebick affinity 2003, 6194 >

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Yahoo Message Number: 9186
Larry, When the charger goes on, for the first 5 minutes or so there will be a large draw and then the draw goes down. Whenever we only have 15 amp service we run the generator for a few minutes to give the charger time to come down from its high point then we plug in the 15 amp service, that usually works.

Bill G. 2001 Magna #5998

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Yahoo Message Number: 9187
The larger the power cord the better, even if only plugged into a 15A outlet. If you are running a 50 or 100 foot run of 15A 14 gauge power cord, you will get a more voltage drop on large loads, than if you were to invest in a Heavy Duty 20A cord from Home Depot. Even better would be to run 30A or 50A cord part way and complete the run with 20A cord (using the appropriate adapters (which you should carry with you anyway).

Remember VoltageDrop = current x resistance (V=I x R). Double the current, you double the voltage drop. Cut the resistance of the cord in half by either using a shorter cord or bigger cord, you have cut the voltage drop by 1/2.

Combined with the other suggestions to change your charger setting to limit the charge current, you will avoid the big initial current spike which might run for 30 to 90 minutes.

Herb

Quote from: tbeer45

I hooked

up after the coach had been at the house for a couple of days and

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voltage drop was reading out 105 on both sides and building slowly

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was drawing about 13 amps so I unplugged the cord.
I think the batts were pulling a rather large charge at the time

and

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was wondering, if I have fully charged batts and try this again,

will

Re: Power cord at home

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Yahoo Message Number: 9195
Quote from: tbeer45
-John, thanks for the reply. I'm not clear about your comment" set

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power shareing for only 15amps" If I understand you, just allow

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a small amount of items to be on [refer, hotwater heat all off] or

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there something on the 2000 that allows for reduced-load sharing? > Thanks, Larry- In Country-Coach-Owners@yahoogroups.com, "john > drebick" wrote:

> set up power sharing for no more than 15 amps. it easy with a

link

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> had a 98 affinity with the link 2000 and did what you want to

do.

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> refer is off and the electric hot water.
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> john drebick affinity 2003, 6194 > >

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Yahoo Message Number: 9205
The power sharing button is on the link 2000. push and hold the set up button for awhile and then the button above it will allow you to scroll through

to the desired charge rate. at least that is how I think I do it..

john drebick affinity 6194
 

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Yahoo Message Number: 9220
John, thanks for the infor on the Link 2000, I dug out the small manual on it, I remember now why I couldn't remember how it worked, I could not get through the manual, WOW, that thing is written for someone more up to speed on electroincs than me.
To ALL, thanks for the replies on the use of the power cord. sure nice to have help,
Larry

Quote from: john drebick
> The power sharing button is on the link 2000. push and hold the

set up

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button for awhile and then the button above it will allow you to

scroll

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through

to the desired charge rate. at least that is how I think I do it..

john drebick affinity 6194