at this time, my rig is not connect to power, only the battery's so if I flip off the breakers,(just to be safe) your saying I can add a standard household Outlet,like I would find at a home improvement store ? my bed doesn't plug into anything like this, just a standard plug. so I could mount a box on the wall and install a plug ? would you suggest I stick to a 2 outlet set up, or can I get 4 outlets out of this wire ? after all most people add 2-3 power strips and load them up, (not me) ha ha but with extra plugs I could avoid the power strips. would a GFI plug set up be wise ? or would it matter with the breaker's ?
Thanks again for any advise/help and suggestions to each of you.
mercedesme28 wrote: at this time, my rig is not connect to power, only the battery's so if I flip off the breakers,(just to be safe) your saying I can add a standard household Outlet,like I would find at a home improvement store ? my bed doesn't plug into anything like this, just a standard plug. so I could mount a box on the wall and install a plug ? would you suggest I stick to a 2 outlet set up, or can I get 4 outlets out of this wire ? after all most people add 2-3 power strips and load them up, (not me) ha ha but with extra plugs I could avoid the power strips. would a GFI plug set up be wise ? or would it matter with the breaker's ?
Thanks again for any advise/help and suggestions to each of you.
as mr. wizard wrote, a std duplex (2 outlet box) should be fine. if you use surface mounts be sure there is enough room for your mattress. planning is everything.
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You can put as many outlets as you like. As long as you don't exceed the rating of the circuit breakers to loads that are too big, you're safe. Within reason.
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OK, it's getting strange, when trying to find out which breaker controlled this line, I went and turned on each breaker 1 at a time,(there is only 5 breakers, 1 goes just to the Micro) it turns out that I must have all 4 on in order to get power to the line. isn't that wrong ?
I'll pull it and look it over later today and post what I see, or don't see.
Thanks for every ones help and input. just a Note, I showed camping world that plug and they had no idea..ha ha ha
here is another part of the picture. one 1 side of the bed I have a cable coming up from the floor,(it has 3 wires in it) on the other side of the bed I found 2 cables coming up and their were connected. after taking these apart, I found that one is a ponytail used to power the other side of the bed. so I have only one hot ... wire in total. so once I tested all the wires and found this out, I then turned off all of the breakers and tested again,(no power) which is right, then I would turn on 1 breaker test...not a single breaker gave power, so I turned them all on, got power, this time I would turn off a breaker to see which gave power, it did not matter which one I turned off, if I turned of 1 of the 4 breakers I lost all power, did not mater which breaker crazy huh...
the only thing I can think of is this last summer we had a Park Blow my converter and melted my outside power plug, I put a better one in, just as if said,(only 2 wires and a ground) and everything works great, until I wanted to use this old wire. ha ha ha could my breakers be bad ? could they be fused,(no pun intented) somewhere behind the panel cover ?
Well, I would certainly pull the panel and look. Strange things can happen. I've been in the electronics business for 50 years and this symptom has me puzzled. I'd be interest to know what you find out.
OK, I took off the Panel cover, took a picture and went to a Builders Supply where I explained it all, and after seeing the same look on his face as I'm sure you all had,(including myself) he had me test a few things and it turns out that my Main was not marked correctly and once that fell into place it all came together, I now know which breaker goes where,(besides the photo's I'm drawing it out) as suggested for future questions.as well as Marking which one goes where. the outlets will go in on Sat. and all is good now in the land of OZ...
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