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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pcmentor29 wrote:The OP stated it was a 30A plug wired for 240V and not 120V and it's reasonable to assume that the hot and neutral were not reversed.
OK reversing a hot with a neutral would make the red and middle yellow lights come on. Is this what the op encountered? Pete
I suspect that the tester lights would be brighter on 240V but that could be hard to detect. It's also possible that the lights would burn out which would be the best scenario as no lights indicate something is wrong - don't plug in the RV.
