50amp on RV, how to plug in at home?

DutchmenSport wrote:
If you have the time, talent, and energy, you could go ahead and get the electric wire for an RV box yourself. You could even purchase the outside box, and even purchase a secondary sub panel and have it somewhat in place. In other words, run everything yourself, and then just have electrician do the actual hookup of the electricity.

I did this with my 30 amp I ran in my garage. I purchased everything myself, ran the wire (I had to remove wall panel) and ran the wire through a conduit so it matched everything else in the garage (not attached to the house). I then contacted an electrician who actually connected the wire to the fuse box and to the RV plug box. Cost was less than $100 for his service, and took him less than 10 minutes.

I could have hooked up the electricity myself, but for this one, I just wanted to make sure it was correct. He told me I did not need to run the wire through the conduit since it was already insulated. The reason for the conduit for the rest of the garage was because they ran single wires through the conduit (3 wires), not bundled in one. He asked me how I managed to shove that wire through all that conduit. I told him "with a LOT of patients and muscle ache! He was impressed!

So if you want to save some cost, purchase the wire, conduit, fuse panel, breakers, all yourself, install it, and have the electrician do the actual hook-up. Besides, if you do have to go through walls, or rip off dry wall or paneling, you can replace it right! And not have to pay extra either!

Since my panel's toward the front of my house, my electrician simply used a knock-out in the main panel, attached 2' of flex conduit to it and attached a standard plug box with 30a plus on it to the side of the house. Box also has a hinged cover. Nice clean setup. I also bought a 25' 30a extension cord from CW, so have 50' of full-on "RV cord". Have never had any issues with the cord getting hot.

Lyle