Newbie terrified of blowing something up
Hello everyone. My wife and I just joined the camper world and so far so good. My question is what size extension cord do I need to plug in my camper at home. The camper is a 50 amp and I have about 4...
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The beauty of using a local company licensed Electrician is his company INSURANCE will pay for burning up all of your 120VAC Appliances by hooking them up to 240VAC if they hook it up wrong.
If you hook it up wrong using your father-in-law or close friends then guess who gets the bill...
The RV 50AMP service is basically two 120VAC Electrical zones with a 50AMP Circuit breaker. Some of the high end trailer would actually use 240VAC for their Washer and Dryer setup. Everything else gets 120VAC from the two 50AMP zones... You have to very sure the local Electrician knows this is for a RV and not a house...
I too only have my two 30A RV's setup here at the house using a 30A to 15A long adapter(WALMART) plugged into a regular 20A Garage receptacle using a long 10-gauge 3-wire HD Contractor type (YELLOW) extension cords like your shore power cable uses. My needs is just a few lights and maybe run the HDTV and all I really want to do is operate the on-board converter/charger unit to maintain my trailer batteries when plugged into my house 20A garage receptacle and work on trailer projects and cleaning.
Roy Ken
If you hook it up wrong using your father-in-law or close friends then guess who gets the bill...
The RV 50AMP service is basically two 120VAC Electrical zones with a 50AMP Circuit breaker. Some of the high end trailer would actually use 240VAC for their Washer and Dryer setup. Everything else gets 120VAC from the two 50AMP zones... You have to very sure the local Electrician knows this is for a RV and not a house...
I too only have my two 30A RV's setup here at the house using a 30A to 15A long adapter(WALMART) plugged into a regular 20A Garage receptacle using a long 10-gauge 3-wire HD Contractor type (YELLOW) extension cords like your shore power cable uses. My needs is just a few lights and maybe run the HDTV and all I really want to do is operate the on-board converter/charger unit to maintain my trailer batteries when plugged into my house 20A garage receptacle and work on trailer projects and cleaning.
Roy Ken
