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Old 05-19-2016, 04:12 PM   #1
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I had a electrician hook up a 30 amp at my garage today, well he didnt do it right and sent 220 in my RV. It fried all electrical things that were on, tv, reciever, woofer and microwave. Do you think it fried the brand new not 2 day old converter i just had put in? also does anyone know where it is located? I had to walk away from it today as i was so upset, so will be checking to find it tomorrow. How will i know if its bad
 
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Old 05-19-2016, 04:27 PM   #2
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It should have tripped your breakers before killing anything. What model do you have. Location is different by model. Our 2005 3400 was right inside the entry door.
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Old 05-19-2016, 04:42 PM   #3
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Amazing how often this very thing is posted on RV forums. Almost seems at least every month or two on another forum someone posts that their new 30 amp outlet was misswired with 220 instead of 120.

Good chance it fried everything it got into. Breakers would only trip if current exceeded breaker rating. Voltage alone would not trip the breaker(s) unless it caused the current to go up also.
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Old 05-19-2016, 04:53 PM   #4
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When i had agut feeling he had done this i pulled it and plugged it into regular outlet. It tripped 3 breakers living room, washer/ dryer and the htr i have the 3475 RL. Oh and the converter, New was just put in on monday by camping world because the original one was old.
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Old 05-19-2016, 04:58 PM   #5
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Sorry to hear of your misfortune, damn good reason to buy a Progressive Industries HW50C.

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Unfortunately,unless you told him what it was for he did nothing wrong. A household 30A outlet is 220V. Commonly used for dryers, air compressors,welders and the like. IF you asked for a 30A RV outlet you might have a shot at his insurance.
That really sucks, I hope you get some resolution.

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Old 05-19-2016, 06:01 PM   #7
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Sorry to hear of your misfortune, damn good reason to buy a Progressive Industries HW50C.

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Under the circumstances, I'm not sure the Progressive protector would have circumvented the issue. It would have seen and passed through a correctly wired 220V current. I think?

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No it would have done it's job. Protection from both high and low voltage.
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Mark, If the electrician installed a 240 volt 30 amp outlet, the power cord from the RV would not have fit in it. If he was a qualified electrician, he would have installed the correct outlet and would have known the difference so I would definately blame the electrician. He should have known the pattern on the outlet wasn't for a 120 volt 30 amp RV cord.
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Old 05-20-2016, 05:05 AM   #10
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Unfortunately most people including electricians associate 30A service with 220V which causes all the problems when wiring this service for 30A RV use.

interestingly I found a very good explanation of both 30A and 50A RV electric service on a Geocaching website quite some time ago. Here is a link to the website: http://www.nelageo.net/index.php?opt...4863&Itemid=54 however you cannot view the PDF file without being a member but it is easy to create an account and then view the file. For those that do not want to bother with that here is a picture of the 30A wiring description on that website.
I hope this helps, you can save this picture and print it out if you wish to have an electrician wire in a RV 30A plug so there can be no confusion as to what it will be used for, protects you and shifts the responsibility to the electrician.

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Here is a direct link to the information Ed referenced above. Everything you need to know about RV electric.

I made one of the 50 amp testers (click on "Outlet Testing, click on "50 amp outlet tester"). The first thing I do when arriving at a new site is plug in the tester to verify voltage and wiring. Quick and easy. If a 30 amp only site, I just use my 50-30 adapter and use the same tester.
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kowboy14-- Listen to what NCFischers has to say because HE IS a licenced electrician and owns his own company. This may has the answers for you. Sorry to hear about this happening but the electrician that installed the outlet for you should have known better than to put an RV outlet on a regular household 30 amp outlet. I'd be going after him or his company for total repair and reimbursement.
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I saw a few posts about this concern and decided to purchase one of those prewired 50/30/20 amp RV boxes. They are pretty fool proof with the electrician only connecting the service and all other wiring already completed, thus avoiding any confusion.

I feel for ya thought, that sucks.
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Rondo, If I made that mistake, I would be obligated to repair his RV.
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Interested to see what comes of this. NCFischers is spot on.
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