TRIPING 50AMP BREAKER.. HELP
HELLO ALL. MY WIFE AND I ARE NEW TO THE RV WORLD THIS HAS BEEN A DREAM OF OURS FOR SOME TIME. RECENTLEY WE BOUGHT A 2006 TT AND I HAD BEEN TOLD BY SERVERAL PEOPLE (IN THE RV WORLD) THAT I WOULD NEED A...
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Vulcan Rider wrote:Because it's a 120/240V 50A 4 wire 3 pole service and it's called 50A because of the higher voltage of 240V.BB_TX wrote:
The 50 amp breaker is truly two separate hot legs with 50 amp capability each.
If that is true, why is it not called 100 amp service ?
Because you could pull (near to) 100 amps without overloading it, right ??
Given this, however, the answer to the original question would be:
The campground breaker is defective or is wired wrong and feeding more than one outlet.
It can and does support any combination of both 120V and 240V loads as long as neither hot exceeds 50A.
