Wiring for 50amp plug
I just rented a storage garage for our new Class A motorhome. It came wired with a 30 amp plug but it's one of the twist type plugs that are typically seen on generators. I purchased a 30amp to 50am...
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JoeH wrote:
I am not an electrician, but it's my understanding that a properly wired 30 AMP RV receptacle has 1 hot (L1) a neutral and a ground. It should be 120 v. Plugging in an adapter, it would feed the L1 across the 2 hots on the 50 RV outlet. I don't see how you can measure 235 volts across those lines as the adapter is just splitting the L1 and you don't have an L1 and L2 at differnt phases to provide the 235v... I'm looking for an explanation !
Can't give you an explanation but the receptacle is listed as 30 amp 120v (that's what the facility says anyway). It's on a box that is attached to the breaker box. When I measure across L1 and L2 on with my meter it showed 235v. If I measured L1 or L2 to the natural it measures 117v. The 30 amp breaker in the breaker panel looked to be a 30amp, single breaker. All my 250v breakers at my house are two breakers with a clip that hooks them together. I'm no electrician by I will be hooking up my progressive EMS to it later to make sure it's wired OK. I believe it is since the meter readings were correct.
