Did I Just Fry My Appliances?
This past weekend I took my dad's 5th wheel to a buddy's farm to hang out for a couple of days. Both of our generators were at our farm a couple hours in the other direction. So, i ran down to the loc...
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What tommy said!!! Some of responses don't know any more than the OP, other than they know enough not to make this mistake.
OP - I wouldn't trust the 'electrician' you talked to with anything! You should have known better, but didn't and asked someone who supposedly was knowledgeable; he wasn't. As a result you tied your Gnd and neutral together, other than some 'bonding' minutiae that doesn't matter here you're OK so far. Next you tied one hot leg from the 220v to your camper hot, still OK as 220 is actually.made from two opposing 110v lines. Lastly, UNFORTUNATELY, you tied the opposing hot line from the generator to your neutral in the camper...no longer OK; now you've put 220v across anything plugged in in your camper.
Net: open outlets are probably OK, but you could have fried anything that was plugged in (if switch was off it *might* have protected it, but you need to check (ie -water heater might still be OK if switch was off because switch prevents 220v from getting to good stuff)). Converter, TV, microwave, anything that has some circuitry always on when plugged in is probably toast.
Sorry you had to learn this expensive lesson.
OP - I wouldn't trust the 'electrician' you talked to with anything! You should have known better, but didn't and asked someone who supposedly was knowledgeable; he wasn't. As a result you tied your Gnd and neutral together, other than some 'bonding' minutiae that doesn't matter here you're OK so far. Next you tied one hot leg from the 220v to your camper hot, still OK as 220 is actually.made from two opposing 110v lines. Lastly, UNFORTUNATELY, you tied the opposing hot line from the generator to your neutral in the camper...no longer OK; now you've put 220v across anything plugged in in your camper.
Net: open outlets are probably OK, but you could have fried anything that was plugged in (if switch was off it *might* have protected it, but you need to check (ie -water heater might still be OK if switch was off because switch prevents 220v from getting to good stuff)). Converter, TV, microwave, anything that has some circuitry always on when plugged in is probably toast.
Sorry you had to learn this expensive lesson.
