Electrical Issues on new travel trailer
Hello, I'm a new owner of a 25' travel trailer. So I am completely not up to speed on the electrical. A situation happened when I was hooking it up to the meter panel for the first time. I was not...
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Sorry to hear about your problems...but once the magic electrical smoke escapes it's really tough to get it back in the box.
Did you use an adapter to get it connected to 240V? Did you wire up the outlet yourself? It would be highly unusual for such a small trailer to be 50amp/240V and there is no way to put a standard 30amp/120V plug into a 50amp/240V outlet without adapters.
If you are thinking of going back on the dealer for not warning you...unless you have something in writing where they recommended using a 240V supply, don't count on them doing anything and it's not likely covered under warranty. I'm not sure if insurance would cover you or not since it's operator error. As someone else mentioned, it's stamped right on the plugs what the voltage limits are.
The devices that were turned off are likely to be OK (so if the air/con was completely turned off, it might be fine) but if they let out smoke, odds are at best they will have a short life. Only question is do you want to deal with it as things fail or pay someone to run thru the systems and replace them prophylacticaly.
Did you use an adapter to get it connected to 240V? Did you wire up the outlet yourself? It would be highly unusual for such a small trailer to be 50amp/240V and there is no way to put a standard 30amp/120V plug into a 50amp/240V outlet without adapters.
If you are thinking of going back on the dealer for not warning you...unless you have something in writing where they recommended using a 240V supply, don't count on them doing anything and it's not likely covered under warranty. I'm not sure if insurance would cover you or not since it's operator error. As someone else mentioned, it's stamped right on the plugs what the voltage limits are.
The devices that were turned off are likely to be OK (so if the air/con was completely turned off, it might be fine) but if they let out smoke, odds are at best they will have a short life. Only question is do you want to deal with it as things fail or pay someone to run thru the systems and replace them prophylacticaly.
