Amp Adaptors
I am new to RVing. I am trying to book a site that has 100amp hookup. I only have 30 amp RV. where do I get an adaptor for a 100 amp to 30 amps Adaptor. I found 50 to 30 but nothing for 100 amps.
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myredracer wrote:
It can't possibly be 100 amps if it's a CG/RV park. Code requires either a 30 amp at 120 volts or 50 amps at 120/240 volts (like in a house), or both on a site. Maybe they are incorrectly referring to a standard 50 amp site as 100 amps because a 50 amp pedestal/site has two hot legs that give you the same amount of power as 100 amps at 120 volts.
If you have a 30 amp RV, a standard RV 30 to 50 amp adapter is a good thing to have regardless. The receptacles in 30 amp pedestals can sometimes be in poor condition and you may need to plug into the 50 amps in a pedestal or move to another site with 50 amps.
Up until 2017, the code (NEC) only required a CG to have 20% of sites to be 50 amps (and only 5% in older CGs) and getting 50 amps can be difficult sometimes, if not impossible and 30 amps is usually what's mostly available.
I do not think that the NEC "requires" anything.
It is not a Federal Law.
"The National Electrical Code (NEC), or NFPA 70, is a regionally adoptable
standard for the safe installation of electrical wiring and equipment in the United States."
It is not, regardless of containing the word "National" a Federal Law.
Additionally, the NEC is really the minimum standard, you can be safer than the standard for safe installation. Like wearing a belt and braces.
