Crack Down on 50 Amp Rigs Using 30 Amp Sites
I don't know how long this has been going on but I learned today that some RV parks including the Washington/Pittsbugh KOA I had booked has a policy that if your rig has 50 amp service, you can't use ...
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Obviously man on this thread do not understand electricity standard codes/rules for amperage draw allowed in the USA, Canada, and Europe, etc. westernrvparkowner has told you the truth and what the codes allow but seems many do not listen or want to listen or fail to understand. Even using 50 amps of 220 volts at 7 allowed hookups by approved code install at a CG is 350 amps on a mandated and approved 200 amp circuit beaker will blow any 200 amp breaker.
The standard seems to be approximately 50% to 60% continuous total draw usability per U/L and the electrical underwriters industry as accepted parameters in their calculations before tripping an overload breaker for both 110V and 202V CG circuits. Even at the max amps of the breaker the 110 voltage delivered drops from 117 nominal voltage to around 105 volts and can harm or burnout motors or A/C's and/or make them run much hotter and far less efficient. As the voltage drops the amps required increases which means it now takes even more amps by 10 to 20 percent just to supply the needed power required until the beaker trips.
It's called a "brownout" which is code for very low voltage being delivered to the main breaker box and is a very well known occurrence in the south in hot very weather in summer with A/C overloading and also in winter when a very cold front passed thru and the massive use electric heaters are going full on 24/7.
50 amp 220V RV's using 30 amp 110V circuits are generally drawing well over the 60% max accumulative designed max power supply capability and will trip the sub box breaker so no one on that line will have ANY power at all until reset and then it occurs again and again and the rising heat builds constantly in the circuit breaker so it trips faster at lower amps draw each time until it's breaker also fails and must be replaced only to happen again.
All CG's are slowly learning that 50 amp rigs belong only on 50 amp 220V sites and not on 30 amp 110V sites. Expect it to be a normal requirement as more and more CG owners learn the facts. The word is spreading fast in the CG ownership industry.
As for "dog bones for 50A to 30A" they will soon be a thing in the past and evictions will be the norm for using them on 30 amp circuits.
The standard seems to be approximately 50% to 60% continuous total draw usability per U/L and the electrical underwriters industry as accepted parameters in their calculations before tripping an overload breaker for both 110V and 202V CG circuits. Even at the max amps of the breaker the 110 voltage delivered drops from 117 nominal voltage to around 105 volts and can harm or burnout motors or A/C's and/or make them run much hotter and far less efficient. As the voltage drops the amps required increases which means it now takes even more amps by 10 to 20 percent just to supply the needed power required until the beaker trips.
It's called a "brownout" which is code for very low voltage being delivered to the main breaker box and is a very well known occurrence in the south in hot very weather in summer with A/C overloading and also in winter when a very cold front passed thru and the massive use electric heaters are going full on 24/7.
50 amp 220V RV's using 30 amp 110V circuits are generally drawing well over the 60% max accumulative designed max power supply capability and will trip the sub box breaker so no one on that line will have ANY power at all until reset and then it occurs again and again and the rising heat builds constantly in the circuit breaker so it trips faster at lower amps draw each time until it's breaker also fails and must be replaced only to happen again.
All CG's are slowly learning that 50 amp rigs belong only on 50 amp 220V sites and not on 30 amp 110V sites. Expect it to be a normal requirement as more and more CG owners learn the facts. The word is spreading fast in the CG ownership industry.
As for "dog bones for 50A to 30A" they will soon be a thing in the past and evictions will be the norm for using them on 30 amp circuits.
