First time Boondocking - Learned a lot!
I use the term boondocking loosely because we were in a Harvest Host vineyard and not in the middle of the Mojave Desert, however, it was still a learning experience for a couple of newbies.
They allowed us to use our generator, it was a bit chilly so we decided to crank it up. That was fine. Waited a few minutes then turned on the heat strip on the A/C unit. Fine. Then decided to microwave the bacon for our BLT's. Not fine. We blew a circuit. No problem, I went to the panel, and nothing was tripped. Got out the manuals to find that the Onan has its own breaker. Crawled under the van, removed the generator cover and after a few minutes of digging around not being able to see, found the breaker and flipped it. Powered the generator back up and the microwave popped back to life. Great!
Left the heater off, and finished the bacon. Great. Went to put bread in a toaster and nothing. No power to the outlets. Great! Now what? After a quick Google search (luckily we had Internet) made our way to the bathroom GFI. Sure enough it was tripped. Corrected that, and boom, we had toast. LOL.
Took about an extra hour to make dinner, but we will never make those mistakes again.
I know this is trivial, but it may help any newbies out on their first excursions. Plus it's just funny, so I thought I'd share. Have a great day all.
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