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I’m typing on my phone, so sentences instead of paragraphs.

How do I change charging rate, and to what level would I want to?

Why was it pulling so much anyway? Lights shouldn’t be an issue as I just installed the LEDs (which are really nice by the way).

[John]

“DKO,

Tell us the campground name and location so others won’t have to deal with the power issue during this heat and the campgrounds lack of customer service.“

Tom,

I was at Camp America near Salem, South Dakota just north of I-90. The replacement breaker held fine the final 36 hours I was there and the guy that changed the breaker was extremely nice when I talked to him later. I am sure they were under a bunch of stress with breakers popping in 100 degree heat. I am sure that temperature is unusual for them.

Over all it was a goodexperience besides that one glitch and the touchy temperment..

DKO

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Karl,

I am not going to try to answer your question specifically because the answer is dependent upon your type of inverters. On my 97 I had Heart Interface Freedom 2500 inverters. To set the charge rate I had to remove the four screws holding the remote panel and set some dip switches on the rear of the remote panel.

The current coach has Outback inverters and the remote has a menu that you can scroll through until you reach the page for the charge rate in amps. I reset mine after getting the coach from 70 amps on each inverter to 10 on each. Even if we use more current than the inverters can replace, at night our batteries will get fully charged.

I cannot answer why you might have a high current draw with LEDs. One thing you might consider is to make note of two things. On my coaches I learn how much amperage each switch in the electric panel draws. I note the display and then turn on (or off) each switch to learn the difference in the reading(s) attributed to each circuit breaker. I also note which side of the panel (line one or line two, left or right, however you want to characterize it) the circuit breaker affects.

To assess the impact on the panel the inverters have I note the current draw with all known DC power devices off (such as lights) and then I turn everything on. All lights, tivolis. etc and note the increase in current draw.

With that understanding of the current draw of each circuit and which side of the panel the load is on I can easily manage my power by balancing the loads and keeping them to a level that will not overload the campground. The bottom line is I never turn off the refrigerator, water pump or inverters, but I am likely to turn off the HW heater and the air compressor.

BTW, the season affects my options. The Webasto is a large DC power current draw because of the circulating pump and the multiple heat exchanger fans. Because of that I want more power for charging from my inverters so while a low setting might be better in the summer, I will set the amperage up in the cooler weather to keep up with the power requirements of the Webasto. Power management in our coaches starts with learning the needs of each of our devices or systems and then making sure we can make the power to them available.