Quick changing 50 to 30 amp receptacle.
I just reserved a site in an rv park and they asked me if I wanted 50 amp or 30 amp service in the site that I requested. I asked which one was available in the site that I wanted and they said "we ca...
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hypoxia wrote:What are you running that regularly pulls a total of 100 amps? And what type of meter do you have that you can put it on the receptacle and it measures the amperage? It is my understanding that the only way to measure amperage is when you are actually drawing the power and I know of no easy way to draw exactly 50amps whenever you want to test a circuit.valhalla360 wrote:hypoxia wrote:
I use an RV park in Mexico that has 30 amp recepticles. If you want 50 amp the electrician comes to the site and puts the 50A recepticle in. He charges $20 USD and you get 50 amp for whatever length your stay is.
When you leave he immediately switches it back to 30 Amp.
Did you really get 50-amp RV service (aka: 2 legs at 50amps each)?
I pull 50 amps from each leg on a regular basis and when I put my meter on the receptacle after he wires it it is a 240 VAC circuit with neutral and ground.
