refrig/oven elecrical connection

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Hello. I did a quick 'search' for this but only got confused, unfortunately I am ignorant about electricity. - In preparation for a trip across country, I decided to bake a pie. I am on house electricity. 
I had a heater hooked up to warm the rpod. Now, it looks like a breaker flipped. The heater is now inoperable, the oven is warm but quit 'preheating' and is now inoperable, and the refrigerator, which was switched 'off' when I started cooking, when I put it on to see if it was operable now just blinks and alarms. The tv seems to be inoperable altho the little red light for the antenna is working.  

No breakers have flipped that I can see in the rpod, including the gfci on the outlet. My house breakers look ok except the gfci breaker had tripped and I flipped it back, no change resulted  that I can see. I checked the electrical cord house connection and it seems fine.

On searching previous topics, it seems the refrig, oven and maybe tv should be on separate circuits, and why can I not find a flipped breaker?

The rpod lights, radio, etc seem to be working fine.

Of course, I have probably made some stupid beginners mistake so any help is very much appreciated.

*** Since writing this, I went out and disconnected the battery and now have no electricity. ***

CANCEL THE EMERGENCY - My wife came home and told me you have to REALLY  flip the house circuit breaker, she did and now we are back, sorta, to normal.

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Happy Tripping Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 May 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 473	Topic: refrig/oven elecrical connection Posted: 23 Mar 2015 at 11:42am
	Hello. I did a quick 'search' for this but only got confused, unfortunately I am ignorant about electricity. - In preparation for a trip across country, I decided to bake a pie. I am on house electricity. I had a heater hooked up to warm the rpod. Now, it looks like a breaker flipped. The heater is now inoperable, the oven is warm but quit 'preheating' and is now inoperable, and the refrigerator, which was switched 'off' when I started cooking, when I put it on to see if it was operable now just blinks and alarms. The tv seems to be inoperable altho the little red light for the antenna is working. No breakers have flipped that I can see in the rpod, including the gfci on the outlet. My house breakers look ok except the gfci breaker had tripped and I flipped it back, no change resulted that I can see. I checked the electrical cord house connection and it seems fine. On searching previous topics, it seems the refrig, oven and maybe tv should be on separate circuits, and why can I not find a flipped breaker? The rpod lights, radio, etc seem to be working fine. Of course, I have probably made some stupid beginners mistake so any help is very much appreciated. * Since writing this, I went out and disconnected the battery and now have no electricity. * CANCEL THE EMERGENCY - My wife came home and told me you have to REALLY flip the house circuit breaker, she did and now we are back, sorta, to normal.

john in idaho Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 04 Nov 2014 Location: Eagle Idaho Online Status: Offline Posts: 613	Posted: 23 Mar 2015 at 12:17pm
	Some breakers, esp the little skinny ones, are hard to see when it is tripped. And one has to flip the breaker completely off before resetting it.

john in idaho Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 04 Nov 2014 Location: Eagle Idaho Online Status: Offline Posts: 613	Posted: 23 Mar 2015 at 12:22pm
	I guess the next question is 'WHAT TRIPPED THE BREAKER"? Is the trailer plugged in to a 15 amp circuit? That may not be enough if you had everything on. I think the reason the lights were working is that they switched to battery when the breaker tripped.

techntrek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062	Posted: 23 Mar 2015 at 4:29pm
	Something else to check inside the pod, for any future problem, is the GFCI outlet. Several things, including the fridge, are usually on that same circuit.
	Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual