Wiring A 30amp RV Outlet - Ground & Neutral
I wired up a 30amp plug in my barn this weekend to power the travel trailer when it’s in the driveway. My barn is wired with a 100amp service breaker cabinet off the house main service, which was ins...
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BB_TX wrote:
That is correct. The neutral and ground are bonded at the main panel and kept separate in the RV.
Okay, but to clarify, while the ground and neutral wires at the receptacle are separate, they both come back to the barn breaker box and terminate on a common or shared ground/neutral buss. So, in reality, they are NOT separate. Is there a danger of this?
I verified at the main 200A power panel in house that feeds the 100A breaker panel in the barn, the ground wire feeding the barn panel is also terminated at the shared ground/neutral buss. There is no separate ground terminal in either panel, and I thought I read of concerns with voltage traveling from the neutral thru to the ground if shared.
