Trouble at State Park
We have a 50A class A, we were going camping at a state park in Kentucky. It was hot so we were running the generator w AC on. We backed into our site, turned off generator, plugged in to 30A post u...
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azdryheat wrote:
Did you report what you found? Perhaps there are more pedestals wired wrong.
Yes, I reported it to the campground host, the Park Ranger, and to the Park Superintendent. The sad thing was that the Park Ranger said that others had complained about the site previously and their facilities folks had checked it and found it to be okay. I suspect they just measured the voltage, got 120V, and found no problem. I showed the Park Ranger our site, then walked to the adjacent site as comparison. He agreed was incorrect. If you measure hot to neutral you will get 120V and not realize that the polarity is reversed. If you measure hot to ground and get 0V, or measure from neutral to ground and get 120V then you have polarity reversed. The Park Superintendent said he would credit my stay due to the issue, although I have not found the credit processed yet...
