Ample
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In this video, I saw that a power converter was able to limit the current it draws from shore power to a value you can set. I think that could be useful in a setting where you want to use someone's home outlet for power but don't want to trip their house breaker.
The key thing is that it seems to be a limiter and not a circuit breaker and so there's no interruption of power as you hit or exceed the value.
In the video, the capability is built into the device in question. But since I have built out my system already, I'm curious if there is a standalone product I can get to do just this function.
A tip that I've seen on this forum is to use a low amperage circuit breaker. In pursuit of this, I did buy a 10A breaker for my shore power connection. But that's just an arbitrarily low number and at that, I could still trip the host's home breaker if there was a large load already on it.
Similarly and conversely, if my host's circuit can do 20A and it has no other load, I could be short-changing the amount of current I could draw.
The key thing is that it seems to be a limiter and not a circuit breaker and so there's no interruption of power as you hit or exceed the value.
In the video, the capability is built into the device in question. But since I have built out my system already, I'm curious if there is a standalone product I can get to do just this function.
A tip that I've seen on this forum is to use a low amperage circuit breaker. In pursuit of this, I did buy a 10A breaker for my shore power connection. But that's just an arbitrarily low number and at that, I could still trip the host's home breaker if there was a large load already on it.
Similarly and conversely, if my host's circuit can do 20A and it has no other load, I could be short-changing the amount of current I could draw.