50 amp RV service recepticle
I'm getting ready to put a 50 receptacle for our new (to us) 5th wheel. We have always had 30 amp 5th wheels before and just used a 20 amp adapters in the barn and watched what we ran. Today I bought ...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:
If you have a 50A RV and you are starting out fresh on your wiring project WHY would you go half AZZ with 30A???
"Dual feed" what is that? 30A is one hot, one neutral and one ground all 10GA wires.
I suspect by "Dual Feed" he means a standard 240 volt (2 hots and a neutral) feed. Which is what 50 amp outlets use.
And why only 30? Well the wire's cheaper and where as I do not know about HIS RV or Future RV I know my RV draws less than 30 amps per leg full load In fact when I'm running on Generator that is EXACTLY what I have a total of 50 amps and I can pull a maximum of 30 amps one one leg (either leg) If I pull more the breaker trips if I pull more than 50 total the generator quits. So 30 should work.
