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    Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 4:28pm
Hi all!
Here lately when I plug my 2018 R Pod 180 into shore power at home or at camp sites I find a few or almost all c/b's popped.  I reset them, and all is good till we break camp and plug in again somewhere else.  Was wondering if this is an early sign of power supply failure, c/b's weak, or something else.

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When plugging in at campsites I always open pedestal c/b before plugging in to camper, at home I just plug into house and then to camper.  Either way I do it c/b's are popping. 
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Posts: 5290 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 4:42pm
Interesting.

If just one branch cb was tripping I'd suggest that there was either a fault or a bad cb on that particular circuit. But if multiple branch cbs are tripping that's a different story.

Is the trailer main 30A cb tripping? is it always the same branch circuits that have their cb's tripping? 

Maybe try turning off the main 30A cb in the trailer, then plug in to your house circuit, then turn on the main in the trailer and watch what happens.
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Some times the 30amp main pops, other times it doesn’t. It’s usually at least a few if not almost all that pop. And everything is always turned off.
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Ah, 180 you say. They all do that. Better trade it in for a 171.

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Posts: 75 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 6:40pm
Ha Ha! We traded a 171 for our 180, only took 171 out 3 times and no issues other than being a tad too small and the wet bath.
Do all 180’s really trip breakers?
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He's pulling your leg.

Circuit breakers don't just pop for no reason. Especially several of them. Now we have some old-original GFCI breakers in the north annex of our house, which was built around 1994. All kinds of things made those suckers pop. The worst offenders were the old fluorescent lights they originally installed. Our solution was to replace the GFCI breakers, and install GFCI outlets wherever they were needed.
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Originally posted by GlueGuy

He's pulling your leg.

Circuit breakers don't just pop for no reason. Especially several of them. Now we have some old-original GFCI breakers in the north annex of our house, which was built around 1994. All kinds of things made those suckers pop. The worst offenders were the old fluorescent lights they originally installed. Our solution was to replace the GFCI breakers, and install GFCI outlets wherever they were needed.

Yah, and the first gen arc fault breakers in the early '00's were even worse. Just turning on my ceiling fans would trip those, they were totally useless. But the breakers tripping in the trailer panel are just plain old breakers, at least they are in mine. 

I think it's going to take some methodical troubleshooting in order to try to zero in on where the problem is.  I'd start with my suggestion above, connect with the trailer main breaker off, then turn that on and see what happens. Record which breakers trip. Then turn the main off again, turn off all the branch breakers, turn the main on and start turning on each breaker one at a time, noting what's happening. 
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Posts: 75 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Sep 2019 at 7:52am
Thanks! I will do that. Appreciate everybody’s input humorous and otherwise.
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I think I may have figured it out,
We got to camp today and I plugged in and nothing happened this time. Also before we left the house I tried un plugging and plugging it back in and nothing happened again.
Could it be my imagination or could towing trailer over rough highways cause them to spring open?
When I started noticing it was on a long trip to New York and the roads were terrible there and back, also we stopped several times in between and that’s when I started seeing breakers popped, I was assuming they popped when I plugged in.
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It's plausible. They are spring loaded.
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