installing 30 amp outlet
We just bought a travel trailer (2008 cherokee) and had an electrician come to install a 30 amp outlet to plug it into. ($500) Immediately when plugging in it trips. We had a second electrician come...
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kateh wrote:
Thanks everybody. I should have mentioned that I specifically made sure he was installing a 30amp/ 120volt and not 220 volt before he started and it is a single slot. It is a dedicated circuit. I'm not sure how many amps the house has. It is a very small 1950s era house. The breaker in the garage trips as soon as it is plugged in. I also read that too many ground faults in the system can make it trip but the second electrician said that it still should not trip and could be a fire hazard. Could it just be that there are a lot of trailers out there that are fire hazards and no one knows because all the campground plugins are not grounded?
We'll do our best to help you figure this out.
A small 1950 era house that still has all original wiring and service might have 80 or 100 amp service. These days, the minimum they are putting in anywhere, including rewire jobs, is 200 amp. In any case, 30 amp should be no problem.
Nobody's suggested this, probably because it is unlikely, but if it is the breaker in the house that keeps blowing, could it be that the breaker itself is bad?
I'm not going to buy the notion that there are a lot of fire-hazard RVs out there. If there were, there would have been a lot of fires.
Since it is a dedicated circuit, the problem has got to be somewhere between the breaker and the RV.
