Your 120v outlets/appliances use just one hot wire for 120v. Some will be wired to one hot and others to the other hot. It is possible to have 240v by using both hots but your RV's breaker panel won't be wired to use both hots for any outlet/appliance.
Look at how much open space there is BETWEEN upper bumps and equally open space BETWEEN. No energy. Wasted space low efficiency
Take a look at this
This is called THREE PHASE
RV manufacturers and therefore RV PARKS have not discovered THREE PHASE yet. So there are no 3-phase power posts yet. Let's not get into how parks are wired yet.
3-phase motors like for your A/C are much smaller and less expensive. The same size cord can deliver twice the energy. But rigs would need 3 phase generators. The changeover to 3-phase would be a titanic amount of work. But worth it in the end. Yes, 3 phase systems can utilize a neutral. The RV weight and space savings would be staggering. And utterly incompatible with today's RV electrical.
Take a look at this
This is called THREE PHASE
RV manufacturers and therefore RV PARKS have not discovered THREE PHASE yet. So there are no 3-phase power posts yet. Let's not get into how parks are wired yet.
3-phase motors like for your A/C are much smaller and less expensive. The same size cord can deliver twice the energy. But rigs would need 3 phase generators. The changeover to 3-phase would be a titanic amount of work. But worth it in the end. Yes, 3 phase systems can utilize a neutral. The RV weight and space savings would be staggering. And utterly incompatible with today's RV electrical.
Yahhhhhhh, the fog thickens!!!
Look people....
There is such a thing as a sine wave. Got it?
When the FuLL sine wave is used it is 240 volts
Draw a horizontal line exactly 50% distance between the sine wave peaks.
That line is NEUTRAL. Connected to the neutral connection on your service drop transformer. Let's call the upper HALF of the sine wave L1 line 1ine one
Let's call the area below the neutral halfway mark L2 Line 2
Nothing in a rig is connected to the top and bottom bumpy lines
Everything is connected from L1 to the neutral OR (read it again) From the bottom half bumpy voltage to the straight neutral line in the center.
Because if you connect one wire from the bumpy top directly to the bumpy bottom and bypass the straight center neutral you'll get 240 volts. Smoke, misery, bankruptcy.
And
NEUTRAL IS NOT NOT NOT earth ground. Go out to your transformer and stare at the THIRD connection that runs from the transformer to your house. It is that line the straight one in the graph.
Look people....
There is such a thing as a sine wave. Got it?
When the FuLL sine wave is used it is 240 volts
Draw a horizontal line exactly 50% distance between the sine wave peaks.
That line is NEUTRAL. Connected to the neutral connection on your service drop transformer. Let's call the upper HALF of the sine wave L1 line 1ine one
Let's call the area below the neutral halfway mark L2 Line 2
Nothing in a rig is connected to the top and bottom bumpy lines
Everything is connected from L1 to the neutral OR (read it again) From the bottom half bumpy voltage to the straight neutral line in the center.
Because if you connect one wire from the bumpy top directly to the bumpy bottom and bypass the straight center neutral you'll get 240 volts. Smoke, misery, bankruptcy.
And
NEUTRAL IS NOT NOT NOT earth ground. Go out to your transformer and stare at the THIRD connection that runs from the transformer to your house. It is that line the straight one in the graph.
