Anyone in here a electrician or has had experience with hooking up a 50amp plug at there home?? Hit me up please or pm me, can figure out why my plug is all kinds of haywire. I have proper readings at plug but once the coach get plugged in I get wild reading on the voltameter!!!
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I wired it myself, I have a single pole 50 amp breaker in my main box, 30' of 8 awg power wires running to a 50 amp plug bought from Home Depot. I have 120v from each leg when on ground and neutral wires and 247v when touching both live feeds together. Then when I plug the coach in it goes to 195v on one leg and 61v on the other?!?!?!?
Well first off you should have two poles, not one. So you have two 120v lines, a neutral, and a ground. If you have a 50amp coach it is not made to run on only one 120v line. The 30amp dog bone splits the 30amp line into to lines.
I wired it myself, I have a single pole 50 amp breaker in my main box, 30' of 8 awg power wires running to a 50 amp plug bought from Home Depot. I have 120v from each leg when on ground and neutral wires and 247v when touching both live feeds together. Then when I plug the coach in it goes to 195v on one leg and 61v on the other?!?!?!?
That is a classic symptom of a floating or open neutral. This can cause major damage to appliances in your coach. You need to have an electrician check out your system.
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Wrong breaker setup to begin with, need two 50 amp breakers out of phase.
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It’s probably a double pole breaker with a single trip/reset lever. He’s getting 240 so it has to be both sides. I agree with open or floating neutral. Get it checked or can cause major damage as Steve said.
The breaker needs to look like this.
A two pole, 50 amp.
If it does, check your neutral connections at the main panel and make sure its on the correct spot of the outlet. It should be on the center slot.
The U shaped hole is ground.
If you have a 4 wire circuit and get 240 between the two hot wires you have a double pole breaker. It could be the outlet is wired incorrectly or there is something wrong in the coach. Either way it can cause some serious damage if the neutral is open or miswired.
Ok do here is the latest/update on this.... I have cleared up the prior issue, but now when I am hooked up to shore power some wires coming to the breaker panel accept the 120v bot others do not and sends the system back in to the previous situation, but as soon as I understand hook the wire everything is fine and dandy
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