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Originally Posted by vipermanden
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I have never tripped a breaker on 50 amp pedestals, but if you look at the manual, it seems as though I should have blown the circuit many times by now????
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As noted above, you have the ability to pull up to 50 amps from hot leg 1 and also 50 amps from hot leg 2. Each hot leg is supplied from one pole of a 50 amp two pole linked (tandem) circuit breaker. The 120 vac devices in your trailer are distributed so that some are wired to one leg and the rest to the other. Most likely you have one A/C wired to each leg. Under the conditions you describe, you might be pulling 30 amps or more from each leg. But you would still be a long way from tripping the 50 amp breaker. You would have to pull more than 50 amps from one of those legs to trip that breaker.