50 amp fiver - 30 amp service
I'm looking to upgrade to a 50 amp 5th wheel and and keep it parked there for the winter. Not sure if my favorite campground has any 50 amps sites available. Would I be OK using the 30 amp service (w...
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Water-Bug wrote:
The whole 30 amp/50 amp thing is further confused because 30 amp service is 120VAC and 50 amp service is actually 240 VAC, but nothing is wired 240 VAC. It is used as two 50 amp 120VAC circuits. If anything were actually wired 240 VAC, it wouldn't work on a 30 amp plug-in.
Yes, you're right and that's part of the problem. Ideally, manufacturers should also provide a 30 amp cord wired only to some of the circuits, for those 50 amp rigs that find themselves, intentionally or not, in a 30 amp site. But that wouldn't satisfy the power-hungry, or those trying to do it on the cheap, or be understood by more than 1/2 of the RV owners.
