A heads up on power
On our caravaan, we had damage to some rigs due to bad power. It was a 160 V. I tell people to buy either a surge guard or progressive industries protector. I am going to have to be more specific in f...
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We have 12 gauge, but will start the search for 10 tomorrow. Fortunately, we carry extra male and female plugs. The initial set up here won't be pretty, but will make it function until we get back and can buy exactly what we want.
We have a couple of questions for you.
We just received our Sola Basic Corrector de Voltaje 4000 and are at the installation phase of ownership. Here’s the conundrum: the unit comes with one cable integral and all hookups are to be done with this cable. The cable contains two hot leads and a neutral—one hot lead for incoming, one hot lead for outgoing and a neutral to share (according to the instruction manual).
My original thought had been to fabricate incoming and outgoing cables with RV 30 amp plug and receptacle on either end so that I could just plug into service in whatever park we go to. I’m still hoping to be able to do this, just a little confused about the how to do it. I can see splitting the one cable into two using the incoming and outgoing hot leads, and splitting the neutral into two wires, one for each, but what about the ground? Do I run a separate line from the plug grounding to the case and then to the receptacle, or divide the neutral into four lines so that I have two for each (plug and receptacle) splitting the neutral into neutral and ground terminals? The whole concept of three lines to handle everything seems a bit hokey to me, but everything is done differently here. I was hoping to avoid making a permanent installation hardwired to our coach as it is wired for 50 amps. We only wanted the voltage smoother for Mexico—so wanted a “plug in” unit.
Think you can advise me on what to do with those three wires? I will be getting 10awg wire manana to finish this off one way or another.
Wait! A neighbor just came over with a 4 foot piece of 50 amp extension cord. That should do it!
Hopefully you can give me some pointers as to how to split them up and add grounds. Thanks
We have a couple of questions for you.
We just received our Sola Basic Corrector de Voltaje 4000 and are at the installation phase of ownership. Here’s the conundrum: the unit comes with one cable integral and all hookups are to be done with this cable. The cable contains two hot leads and a neutral—one hot lead for incoming, one hot lead for outgoing and a neutral to share (according to the instruction manual).
My original thought had been to fabricate incoming and outgoing cables with RV 30 amp plug and receptacle on either end so that I could just plug into service in whatever park we go to. I’m still hoping to be able to do this, just a little confused about the how to do it. I can see splitting the one cable into two using the incoming and outgoing hot leads, and splitting the neutral into two wires, one for each, but what about the ground? Do I run a separate line from the plug grounding to the case and then to the receptacle, or divide the neutral into four lines so that I have two for each (plug and receptacle) splitting the neutral into neutral and ground terminals? The whole concept of three lines to handle everything seems a bit hokey to me, but everything is done differently here. I was hoping to avoid making a permanent installation hardwired to our coach as it is wired for 50 amps. We only wanted the voltage smoother for Mexico—so wanted a “plug in” unit.
Think you can advise me on what to do with those three wires? I will be getting 10awg wire manana to finish this off one way or another.
Wait! A neighbor just came over with a 4 foot piece of 50 amp extension cord. That should do it!
Hopefully you can give me some pointers as to how to split them up and add grounds. Thanks
