Park Power Pole Problems

rgatijnet1 wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
L1 and L2 becomes meaningless once you are past the service entry. The lines are interchangeable and are connected at random from pedestal to pedestal. L2 on your pedestal can be L1 or L2 on the next.

I disagree with this statement. All of the licensed electricians that I hired as a Commercial General Contractor were always consistent. They would not flip the red and black wires around at random.

All of our pedestals are connected with 4/0/4/0 4/0 URD service entry aluminum wiring. The conductor casing is solid black for both hot lines and there is a yellow stripe on the neutral. The wire is twisted and unless you Ohm out every connection, no way to tell one hot from the other. And since it does not matter, the electrician does not ohm them out and just connects them randomly. No red or white wires to deal with. The ground wire is wired in separately and is #2. Wiring a string of pedestals is different than the wiring in a building since the service wiring is behind the breakers in the pedestal. While you are correct that wiring past the breaker should be color coded, you will also note that most appliances that require 240 volts don't request wire by color, they just say hook L1 here and L2 there. It doesn't matter if the red or the black wire is considered L1, that designation is totally up to you.