D.E.Bishop wrote:
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.
See ART #551 of the 2014 NEC. It does in fact cover the electric installation of RV parks. If the State adopts the NEC it is the law or you don't get to build it. Pretty simple. To get electricity you must get building permits etc. Power companies don't just hook up because you want it.
See NEC 551 part VI. 551.71.