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Originally Posted by Stumpy75
Refrig, TV and maybe even the hot water heater would be ok. However, if you want to try to run the AC, then all of those other things will have to be shut off or turned to propane. The starting surge of the AC is what draws the big amount of power. Depending on your friends available power, the AC will probably run on the standard 120volt, 15amp household circuit, as long as it's the only thing on the circuit. Keep any extension cords short and heavy(10 gauge wire). And don't use the cheap 15A to 30A adapters. Get a heavy duty one of those too.
While you're at it, pick up a voltage monitor. It plugs into a 120volt outlet and reads out the voltage. Anything below 108 volts will be real hard on the AC, or whatever else is running too.
The lights run off of 12volt, and should not be as much of a problem.
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If you have dual AC/LP fridge and HW then use LP on fridge and HW. Refrigerator runs great on LP and doesn’t use much LP gas. The HW heater uses much less LP than you’d think.
The 110v from the house will go through converter to run DC lights and charger for batteries.
Don’t turn on Elec HW heater. It would probably trip the house breaker if 15amp as house plugs usually are. Some garage plugs are on 20amp breakers.
Either way use at least a 14 gauge 14AWG heavy extension cord, a 12AWG would be better.
Use short as possible length on extension cord.
You can probably forget about running the AC unless you installed an SoftStartRV box on AirConditioner, then you’d still be limited on what else you can run.
Coffee makers and hair dryers are real amp hogs.
If you pull too many amps from the house plug the breaker will trip there first.