Thursday, March 25, 2010

How Much Power Do We Use

This is a picture of the display on the generator outlining how much power the park is consuming.  It is reporting that the generator is putting out 212 volts at 60Hz and 354 amps.  What is wrong with this picture?  We are 62 trailers and should be able to draw more than 354 amps if our individual trailer amperage of 30 amps were being more utilized.  Doing the math 62 trailers times 30 amps is 1860 amps.  So therefore we are only running a 20% load of the overall park electrical service.

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  1. After watching the generator periodically throughout the night, I have not really seen it go significantly over 400 amps. So therefore we are only using on average between 20 & 25% of the overall park hydro distribution even with a bitter cold night. It has been a cold night and even still we have not significantly exceeded 25% of our power; therefore, I have to question why our deteriorated power system is blamed on heaters and over usage of the hydro system?

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