50 Amp Usage Question
I occasionally have friends visit and stay in their camper. I have installed a 35 amp RV box by the back driveway. I also have a 4 wire 20 amp 220 outlet by my carport for an emergency generator which...
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ScottG wrote:dodge guy wrote:ScottG wrote:dodge guy wrote:
Well first off you can’t use a 220V circuit on a 50A RV!
Second higher amps is always the better way to go.
But since you’re wiring everything, why not just run a couple 50A RV services with a 30A RV outlet.
Every 50A RV has 240VAC coming into it but it's then separated into two 120VAC circuits.
Look at the wiring of a 50A RV outlet. It is not 240V! Now you can wire in 240 after the panel in the RV. But coming in, no it’s 2 120V 50A circuits. Just adding up the voltage does not make it 240!
I'm sorry but you just don't understand what this circuit is. It's simply a 240VAC range outlet. It does measure 240 across in your RV's panel and yes, adding up two 120VAC circuits that are on opposite sides of a split phase does give you 240V.
Maybe we're just getting stuck in semantics here..
To call it a 240V outlet for RV use is wrong. Someone may make a big mistake! There are 2 separate 120V legs, 1 Neutral and 1 ground. At no point do they make 240V unless you install that type of breaker in the panel and run 240 off of that.
