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georgelesley
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May 06, 2016

Calling an electrician

We have a 2014 Itasca with a Norcold 4 door refer. According to the Norcold site, it draws 1.9 amps and needs 108v AC to work. We have a garage with a 100 amp sub panel off the house that I wish to plug the MH's into with a wire buried underground and about 150ft long that will end near the MH's parking pad. The sub panel was installed because the previous homeowner used the garage as a large workshop with many big power eaters. I need power there to operate lights and power doors only, so have much excess capacity.

I am wanting to make sure I use a heavy enough gauge cable so not to have too much voltage drop with I'll say 300-400 watts draw using refer and trickle chargers? 12 or maybe 10 gauge wire? I don't know the formula to calculate voltage drop over 150ft. Thx!

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  • You are going to be looking at something close to #8 or #6 wire for that kind of a run unless you turn everything off and insure you don't power much more than the fridge and maybe the battery charger. If you want something close to 30AMP power at the coach I would guess at least #6 to run 150 feet.
  • Remember, you need wire sized to match your MHs power cord. Is it 30 or 50A? Not only the refer, but converter, and everything else could get powered.