Dirty electric @ state park

wa8yxm wrote:
Some older campgrounds (like the one I'm parked in) were wired with a lot of aluminum wire, which has developed a fairly high resistance (NOTE: we are still talking a fraction of an ohm per a fairly long distance, but it's a bigger fraction these days) so they crank up the voltage so as to get enough to your RV.

Of course, if you are not running air conditioning or electric heat this means you are OVER powered. which is every bit as bad (if not worse).

And how, pray tell, do they do this? Voltage is controlled by the power company at the transformer. The power provider would never permit a lineman to provide a voltage over the code provided maximum to a meter since that would make them liable for over voltage damages. Parks don't have Frankenstein style labratories where they mix and match electrical currents before sending them out to their pedestals.