Electrical problem today
Plugged into 50 amp service this morning. Apparently didn't fully seat the connection from the cord to the camper. Fried the bedroom TV (lots of heavy thick smoke, we thought we had a fire) and frie...
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CA Traveler wrote:stro1965 wrote:It sounds like to me that because the twist lock plug wasn't seated you wound up with an open neutral on the 50A. You should give serious thought to installing a PI HW50C which would have protected the equipment.
Once I gave the connection a 1/4 turn and fully seated it, the outlets functioned normally.
Already replaced the TV and will pick up a microwave tomorrow. I'm concerned though, why didn't I trip breakers or blow fuses? Is there possibly something else wrong?
An open neutral can give you high/low voltage on either hot leg which sounds like your description.
An open neutral won't trip the CB's because they protect the 2 hot lines and not high/low voltage on the neutral.
THIS^^^^^^^
Up to 220V on one leg (which fried the TV and Microwave)
Way less than 110V on other leg as evidenced by the outlets that would barely work
