50 amp wiring
I have a question concerning 50 amp wiring in fifth wheel and generators. My idea is that if the two 120 volt lines are separate, meaning no device will use the 2 hot wires, could I run two separate g...
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KD4UPL wrote:
Even if you hooked up what your proposing and didn't burn up a generator you still have the possibility of overloading the neutral wire. If you've got 4 2 kW gen. hooked up that's 8,000 watts potentially. At 120v that's almost 67 amps. That's way too much current for the neutral.
Folks, he's got a 50 amp service RV which is actually two 120 volt hots at 50 amps each or a total of 100 amps on the common neutral. A 50 amp RV can handle 12,000 watts.
I personally wouldn't do what he is proposing due to the potential of a hell of a short generator to generator if something fails but it is truly in theory possible to do.
