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RE: 50 to 30 to 15 amps
OP is not asking about how to wire a receptical. OP stated he is moving and does not want to install one. OP simply asked if he could plug into a 15 amp circuit using a dogbone.
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cavie
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06/25/19 10:04am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Forest River Wildwood 300BH question
Not knowing your floor plan I'm going to guess. I'll use mine as an example.
rear dump on mine is one pull for black and one pull for gray. The front dump is one pull for Galley and one pull for Gray. Each tank has a seperate dump valve. No tank has 2 dump valves.
Not all tanks have automatic change over valves. If it is automatic The regulator handle points to the tank in service. Both tanks must be on but it will only draw for the tank at a time. Mine regulator has a valve with a pointer but is not automatic. I leave on off so I know when the in service one empty's. I then switch the valve to the other tank and remove the empty.
Regulator with a directional handle only draw from one tank at a time weather automatic or not.
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cavie
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06/22/19 06:28am |
Travel Trailers
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water heaters
Why is it the all RV'ers have trouble with the HOT WATER HEATERS but nobody ever has trouble with a COLD WATER HEATERS??? Enquiring minds want to know!
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cavie
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06/19/19 10:01am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Arcing sound from rear of rig
If you are hearing rattling noise then I'm going to assume you gave a Generator and a transfer switch. If no generator then there is no transfer switch. Transfer switch will rattle with a problem connection. That's is where I would start. Check ped and trailer connections. If your hearing just buzzing or cracking noise it a loose burning electric connection.
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cavie
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06/19/19 09:51am |
Tech Issues
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RE: 12 VDC loss
Please explain what you are calling the Aux Battery Switch. Circuit breakers are 120 volts so forget about them. The only breaker that has anything to do with the 12 volt system is for the converter. It charges the battery and supplies 12 volts for the 12 volt system When plugged into shore power,
Be sure your telling us ALL the things that don't work. What you describe sounds like it is just one fuse blown. Explain how you checked the fuses.
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cavie
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06/17/19 03:29am |
Tech Issues
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RE: 12 VDC loss
Please explain what you are calling the Aux Battery Switch. Circuit breakers are 120 volts so forget about them. The only breaker that has anything to do with the 12 volt system is for the converter. It charges the battery and supplies 12 volts for the 12 volt system When plugged into shore power,
Be sure your telling us ALL the things that don't work.What you describe sounds like it is just one fuse blown. Explain how you checked the fuses.
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cavie
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06/17/19 03:29am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Hot water
how do flush your hot water tank
If a suburban pull the anode rod. If an attwood open the pressure relieve valve and let the water run a while.
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cavie
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06/16/19 08:30pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Toilet seal for foot pedal plunger.......
If it's a Domedic 320 call a service guy. Very tricky to install. No tools involved but very tricky. Seal cost $30.00. Charged me $25.00 to do it. Need RV supply house or Amazon to buy seal om your own.
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cavie
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06/16/19 03:52pm |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Terrible condensation/mold? What to use to prevent
Mine is kept in a seasonal campgrounds all the time. It is closed up for 8 months winter season a year. I have MaxAir covers on the roof vents. For the first two years we left the roof vent OPEN all winter. No problem. The third year we forgot and left them closed. Have you ever tried to clean mold off of mini blinds??? This year we left them open again and were very pleased to come back to no mold anywhere. I don't know if being up in the mountains of Hinsdale MA at 1450' has anything to do with it but it does work. Local RV repair tech informed me of this. Now if I was down in Florida I would not dream of trying that. My house is locked up tight and the A/C is set at 84 degrees and no body is home. Humidity stays around 50%
While we are here we run the dehumidifier if the heater is on. No wet windows and walls that way. If we don't use the dehumidifier with the furnace all the windows fog up on the inside. Water will run down the wall. It all has to do with where you live.
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cavie
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06/12/19 03:31am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: 240V from 120V generator
call an electrician. Have him install a Generator lock out to match your house panel. You cannot supply 240 volts from your gen. You will have access to any 120.
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cavie
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06/03/19 07:37am |
Do It Yourself Modifications and Upgrades (DIY)
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RE: PVC Pipe Solvent/Cement, How do you Prolong in storage ?
with 50 years of PVC glue experience I can tell you you can not store it for long periods. Just buy small cans. Check it before your next project and buy new small cans if need be.
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cavie
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06/03/19 05:40am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Do I need a surge protector?
Found out after we bought one that our coach has surge protection built in but... I still prefer that the 300.00 or less unit we plug into the tower, post, outlet or whatever to take the hit instead or at least first. It saved us grief a few times. In Missouri the campground had both 50 amp circuits going to one leg. The unit kept everything from frying on that leg and half the coach was dark.
I'm not sure that was the diagonsis. It has been a long time. In Michigan a campground we visit a lot on a packed holiday weekend a surge then brown out was caught by the unit. Another occasion lightning hit power distribution, something or other and popped the unit. During a storm some trees and high tension lines, came down and all kinds of fireworks popped the unit.
Our unit is undamaged but I have read here and elsewhere, over the years, of RVs being saved by the units which themselves were sometimes fried. In some reports the mfg replaced the damaged units but not always. I don't remember the two or three brands or even what mine is at the moment. It plugs into the pedestal and cord into it.
There are post here on this forum and others of some RVers losing microwaves, air conditioners,tvs and every thing else from a surge,...and brown outs from low voltage. We don't have one of the EMS that boost voltage but it's on the list.. We see low voltage we turn on the generator and disconnect for time being.
EMS does not boost voltage. There are 3 different devices. Surge protector, EMS, and Auto transformer. Each one does a different job. Do some research.
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cavie
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06/01/19 03:35am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Mystery with Suburban furnace
sounds like a faulty control board. What you are doing is resting the controls. Try resenting the T-stat.
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cavie
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05/31/19 01:14am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Magnum error code
Getting high volts AC
Any ideas what is causing this.
Assuming your looking at the incoming AC power voltage I suggest you use a volt meter and go outside and plug test the voltage at your shore power and see what it reads. They should be the same.
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cavie
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05/31/19 01:09am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Tap into my 30 amp Dryer outlet for an RV outlet???
To clarify...it is a double pole 30 amp breaker...and it leads to the outlet in the laundry room and the washer and dryer are both plugged into what appears to be a standard 15-20 amp grounded outlet.
double pole 30A is going to be a 240 circuit. Washer and dryer run off 120V. So, something is at least "strange". It could have been rewired at one time, with the 30A set up for a electric dryer and then either the 30A doesn't go to anything anymore, or someone used 1 leg of the 30A breaker to wire in a 120V 15/20A outlet.
Or the 30A circuit still leads to a 30A 240V dryer outlet somewhere in the laundry room. Even if you have a gas dryer I suspect code still requires the laundry room to have a 30A 240V outlet for the dryer.
The other possibility is that years ago what was occasionally done is to run two circuits (split phase) to each duplex outlet. at the outlet they would break out the tab between top and bottom and wire one leg to the top circuit, one to the bottom. that made the "duplex" outlet into two single circuit outlets, still only needed one ground and one neutral. worst case neutral current would be the breaker rating for the circuit, best case neutral had no current flowing. However if that was done the breaker should have been either a 15A or 20A, not 30A
Someone may have replaced the dryer with gas, looked at a way to get another 120V outlet, left the 30A breaker in place and replaced the 30A 240V dryer circuit with a split circuit 120, one circuit for the dryer, one for the washer. In that case the wire to the outlet should be #10. But it may not have a seperate ground and neutral, which is a no-no.
Every gas dryer we have ever had runs on 120V, needing no more than a 15A circuit. In fact, in our house the washer and gas dryer have run on a single 20A circuit for decades and decades, most often running both at the same time.
Unless you are very familiar with electric codes and wiring I'd have a qualified electrician take a look at the what you really have going on. You REALLY need to know EXACTLY what the current wiring situation is BEFORE proceeding.
There has never been a requirement for a dryer circuit in a laundry room. Only a Dedicated 20 amp 120 outlet in the laundry,
To the OP, Chances are it was wired for a Dryer and someone rewired it for 2 separate circuits and it may be code if originally wired with 4 wire romex. Best to have an electrician look at it. I would just use a dog bone and plug into a 20 amp circuit. Manage your usage.
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cavie
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05/30/19 06:37pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Tap into my 30 amp Dryer outlet for an RV outlet???
Considering your gas dryer also uses 120 volts for the "gas valve" (not referred to as an element) you may need some fine tuning on electrical circuits. The 30 amp outlet for your dryer is 240 consisting of two hot, and one ground wire where as your RV uses one hot, one ground and one neutral wire for 120 volts. It would be better to add one 30 amp 120 volt CB and the proper wire to an RV outlet and much safer it would be. The RV outlet polarity must be wired correct as well.
You can google RV outlet wiring schematics and if you are not sure, well?
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cavie
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05/30/19 06:18pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Do I need a surge protector?
I know this sounds like a stupid question, so let me explain. My new rig has a Precision Circuits PCS, which works in hand with a Magnum 2Kw inverter. The documentation states that the PCS will work together via an inverter assist mode. The PCS also brings up circuits one at a time, has L-1 and L-2 voltage status, shows amperage draw, can detect between 30A, 50A and genny. And has alarms for brownouts, overvoltages, and wiring status error. The PCS also brings up circuits one at a time, has L-1 and L-2 voltage status, shows amperage draw, can detect between 30A, 50A and genny. And has alarms for brownouts, overvoltages, and wiring status error.
The auto transfer switch (Ironically made by Surge Guard) does not have any surge protection. So it seems the switch itself is not protected.
So before I invest around $300 in a Progressive Dynamics HW50C, I am asking if I actually need it? It seems some of the functions of it are redundant to ones I already have.
The PCS can only alarm you. An EMS works on it's own and turns power off when low and back on when correct with you having to no nothing. Prevent form high and low voltage. Not just alarm. Will not allow current to flow with an incorrect wired ped.
It is a much different kind of equipment. Your PCS is a load sheader. I just turns off equipment till the draw is with in tolerance.
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cavie
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05/28/19 08:12pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Generator Issues
I’m assuming they wired something wrong after the fire. Everything was working fine before hand.
Move one of the A/C's to the other leg. Just swap with a smaller breaker on the other leg.
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cavie
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05/27/19 08:07pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: 14-50 Nema converter to 30 AMP female
So I just installed a 14-50 Nema outlet to charge my electric vehicle. I believe it's 240v, but as far as I know it pulls it from 2x120v. Can I use an adapter and plug my 30AMP 110v trailer to it? Will I get 240v or 110/120v?
50 amp is 120/240 just like at home. 240 L1 to L2. 120 volts L1 to neutral and L2 to neutral just like at home. Yes you can use and RV dog bone to hook up to your 30 amp 120 trailer.
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cavie
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05/27/19 04:50pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Generator Issues
Check to see if the A/C's are on different lines. L1 and L2.
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cavie
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05/27/19 04:42pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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