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We read an online RV newsletter that comes out each Saturday. Electricity is often a topic of discussion. Today there was a survey to try to tell what percent of readers have experienced some sort of ...
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Exactly senor. Learn how to (excuse me) navigate down here and eliminate 90% of the things that would disturb a perfect trip.
For years I brought down nylon body spec grade receptacles for favorite campsites. When handed a receptacle with a smile RV park owners will bend over backward to get it installed. A properly treated nylon spec receptacle will last 20x as long as a scumbag grade contractor plastic receptacle. Squirt silicone dielectric grease into the slots and the receptacle becomes almost bulletproof. Any Lowe's or Home Depot carries EXTRA LARGE nylon receptacle plates. Like the receptacles, NYLON plates are just about unbreakable. Price for both is about four dollars.
This works best if adjacent campers can be nagged into doing the same thing. Nylon stuff is not available down here. Even plain spec grade is very hard to find. It's not just a matter of the park owner being cheap. Look for blue or red wire nuts the next time you come down. There aren't any so don't ***** about flaky park electrical service.
I wired Flores de Las Penas WAY WAY WAY above NEC and NEMA Code. True 6 AWG to 50-amp receptacles. True 8 AWG to 30 amp receptacles and TEN GAUGE to 20 amp 127 vac receptacles.
Yet I had gringos come in and tell me how wrong things were when CFE was presenting low voltage grid.
"Twenty amp receptacles are a code violation yadda you should use only 15 amp blah blah. I had a shum-dit Texan look at my 200 amp service panel and declare "You need to bring up things to code. What is that thing - fifty amp rated?"
If I had to endure this ignorance, big park owners get flooded with it. They tune it out. Become hardened. A plastic receptacle gets broken. Two weeks later the replacement gets broken.
So when someone shows up with a special receptacle, smiles then politely explains why this special receptacle will far outlast the regular ones, the owner will not only listen, he will be thankful. All's it takes is a minimum effort on the part of an RV'er to bridge the "gap".
I left fifteen dollars worth of red and blue wire nuts at the orphanage near Ocozocuautla, Chis. several years ago and from the reaction offered after I demonstrated their function, I could have as well left Cortes' treasure. The electrician showed up the next day with a huge bowl of sweet tamales from his better half.
For years I brought down nylon body spec grade receptacles for favorite campsites. When handed a receptacle with a smile RV park owners will bend over backward to get it installed. A properly treated nylon spec receptacle will last 20x as long as a scumbag grade contractor plastic receptacle. Squirt silicone dielectric grease into the slots and the receptacle becomes almost bulletproof. Any Lowe's or Home Depot carries EXTRA LARGE nylon receptacle plates. Like the receptacles, NYLON plates are just about unbreakable. Price for both is about four dollars.
This works best if adjacent campers can be nagged into doing the same thing. Nylon stuff is not available down here. Even plain spec grade is very hard to find. It's not just a matter of the park owner being cheap. Look for blue or red wire nuts the next time you come down. There aren't any so don't ***** about flaky park electrical service.
I wired Flores de Las Penas WAY WAY WAY above NEC and NEMA Code. True 6 AWG to 50-amp receptacles. True 8 AWG to 30 amp receptacles and TEN GAUGE to 20 amp 127 vac receptacles.
Yet I had gringos come in and tell me how wrong things were when CFE was presenting low voltage grid.
"Twenty amp receptacles are a code violation yadda you should use only 15 amp blah blah. I had a shum-dit Texan look at my 200 amp service panel and declare "You need to bring up things to code. What is that thing - fifty amp rated?"
If I had to endure this ignorance, big park owners get flooded with it. They tune it out. Become hardened. A plastic receptacle gets broken. Two weeks later the replacement gets broken.
So when someone shows up with a special receptacle, smiles then politely explains why this special receptacle will far outlast the regular ones, the owner will not only listen, he will be thankful. All's it takes is a minimum effort on the part of an RV'er to bridge the "gap".
I left fifteen dollars worth of red and blue wire nuts at the orphanage near Ocozocuautla, Chis. several years ago and from the reaction offered after I demonstrated their function, I could have as well left Cortes' treasure. The electrician showed up the next day with a huge bowl of sweet tamales from his better half.
