Possible electrical damage - new to RVing
I have purchased a 2013 Raptor 27ft Toy Hauler. Have enjoyed it for a 6 months - no issues. I made a mistake - Not sure if I made the mistake but - the issue is that I went to a RV park - with elect...
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What you did should not have resulted in what happened.
If you have a transfer switch, which I think is likely, it is designed to isolate the two power sources (the generator and the shore power cord) from each other and only let one feed the RV power at a time. That is the sole purpose of its existence. It sounds as though upon plugging in you probably had both connected together, which means it was broken in a very dangerous way. You could have had much worse damage, potentially having the generator physically self-destruct in a rather spectacular fashion as it suddenly was fighting against line power.
If you don't have a transfer switch but instead have to plug your shore power cord into a socket in its storage compartment to use the generator, the generator was not connected at all (you unplugged it to get the shore power cord out) and the most likely cause was a grossly miswired campground receptacle.
If somehow you don't have a transfer switch and both the generator and the shore power cord are wired to separate 30A breakers in the same breaker panel and there's no interlock device to make sure only one is on at a time, you have an improperly wired RV that should never have been set up that way. It certainly would not meet the electric code set up that way.
If you have a transfer switch, which I think is likely, it is designed to isolate the two power sources (the generator and the shore power cord) from each other and only let one feed the RV power at a time. That is the sole purpose of its existence. It sounds as though upon plugging in you probably had both connected together, which means it was broken in a very dangerous way. You could have had much worse damage, potentially having the generator physically self-destruct in a rather spectacular fashion as it suddenly was fighting against line power.
If you don't have a transfer switch but instead have to plug your shore power cord into a socket in its storage compartment to use the generator, the generator was not connected at all (you unplugged it to get the shore power cord out) and the most likely cause was a grossly miswired campground receptacle.
If somehow you don't have a transfer switch and both the generator and the shore power cord are wired to separate 30A breakers in the same breaker panel and there's no interlock device to make sure only one is on at a time, you have an improperly wired RV that should never have been set up that way. It certainly would not meet the electric code set up that way.
