Hooking up a UK RV in USA
I'm shipping my Autocruise Jazz RV from UK to USA for a 6 month holiday in 2015. In UK I hook up using a standard cable used across Europe for 220 or 240V. Can I get a cable or an adaptor that w...
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azdryheat wrote:
It is my understanding that 240 volts is not used in our campgrounds. Our RV's are not 240 volt, either, but 120 volt. The standard 240 volt line uses 2 hots and a ground. What our RV's use, and what is wired at the rv parks, is a 120 volt, 50/30/20 amp circuit. The difference in the rv circuit is the addition of a common/neutral white wire (2 hots, a common and a ground). Think of it as two 120 volt circuits in one. There is nothing in our USA rv's that use a 240 circuit.
While you are correct that there are not many RVs that have 240VAC appliances, all RVs that are wired with 50A service do, indeed, have 240VAC coming in to them. Those RVs are nothing more than tiny houses, with 2 hot leads, a neutral lead, and a ground lead. The 2 hot leads enter the RV and tie to each side of the power distribution box. If you were to install a dual pole breaker in that distribution box you would have 240VAC available to use.
If you find a campground that provides 50A service and you do NOT measure 240VAC across the two hot leads then they have not wired their pedestal correctly.
