240v 30amp recepticle fries another one!
My friend just brought home a new travel trailer and plugged it into his 30a rv receptacle mounted outside his garage. You guessed it, 240 volts instead of 120. He got his electrician out to check t...
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RoyB wrote:
You hear alot of this when house electricians wire up a 50AMP SERVICE for RV's. Not so much for the 30AMP Service.
The 30AMP Service being identical to the 20AMP service except for the connectors/plugs really should have been a NO-BRAINER to the technicians.. I guess the three prong sockets that look like dryer plugs fooled him big time...
Glad it all worked out. Another good reason to not let your non bonded son-in-law work on your RV hehe...
Roy Ken
You cannot plug a RV 30 amp male into a 220 dryer outlet. So, they used the RV female (which has the current (120) rating on it and also has the green/silver/gold connections which should have been a red flag to a normally intelligent person. Doug
