Electrical upgrades: Adding an AC Outlet
When I'm connected to shorepower I use a space heater more often than not, so I don't have to use propane or listen to the deafening noise of the propane furnace at night. (If it's really cold out th...
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You were lucky to have your electrical panel right next to the drawer where you wanted your new outlet, and had plenty of room for a standard size box.
I have a 40 foot long trailer with a queen size bedroom in each end and wanted to had two wall lamps, in both bedrooms on each side of the bed for a total of four lamps.
Talk about a challenge: in each bedroom I tapped off a circuit feeding a wall outlet which was the last item on the circuit which meant I only had to be concerned with one cable and my new one. Problem number one is the fact that the outlet was one of those with no box since a standard receptacle and standard box won't fit in the narrow space between the inside wall and the outside of the trailer so I had to use a new "old work shallow box" with the additional compartment on the side which gave 17 cubic inches of space for the wiring. In using that type box I had to enlarge the wall opening to a standard box size opening.
I won't go into the rest of the pulling insulation out of the wall using long needle nose pliars, and pulling the cable from the side wall to around the end wall and drilling holes and daisy chaining the cable from one new lamp box to the opposite one since it was such a complicated mess, but it is all done and came out good.
Guy
I have a 40 foot long trailer with a queen size bedroom in each end and wanted to had two wall lamps, in both bedrooms on each side of the bed for a total of four lamps.
Talk about a challenge: in each bedroom I tapped off a circuit feeding a wall outlet which was the last item on the circuit which meant I only had to be concerned with one cable and my new one. Problem number one is the fact that the outlet was one of those with no box since a standard receptacle and standard box won't fit in the narrow space between the inside wall and the outside of the trailer so I had to use a new "old work shallow box" with the additional compartment on the side which gave 17 cubic inches of space for the wiring. In using that type box I had to enlarge the wall opening to a standard box size opening.
I won't go into the rest of the pulling insulation out of the wall using long needle nose pliars, and pulling the cable from the side wall to around the end wall and drilling holes and daisy chaining the cable from one new lamp box to the opposite one since it was such a complicated mess, but it is all done and came out good.
Guy
