E150 camper van here - Im just wondering what everyone uses as a common junction point for all your electric appliances? What can handle the load when you're in camp, plugged into 30A power, when you're running the AC, tv, microwave and refrigerator all at once? Im guessing a common power strip wont do that without tripping its own little internal breaker?
115v appliance pwoer strip? What handles all the loads without tripping?
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highdesertranger
Adventurer
so you got a lot of stuff in an e150. you should have a rv distribution panel it will have all your breakers just like your house panel. highdesertranger
LandCruiserPhil
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You will challenged to find a strip rated for 30A when standard configured 110 outlets have a maximum rating of 20A. Like the post above I would recommend a rv distribution panel for safety if for nothing else.
You need a breaker panel. An RV one is fine or just buy a small regular breaker panel from Lowes. Put in a 30 amps single pole main breaker and hook that to your 30 amp RV cord. Then install as many 15 and 20 amp single pole breakers as you like. These get hooked to outlets for your many appliances.
quickfarms
Adventurer
The 30 amp plug in the rv park has a 30 amp breaker on it so there in no need for a main breaker.
Buy a surface mount 4/8 slot breaker box. 4 15 amp breakers and 4 single outlets.
The single outlets get installed in each of the corner knockouts.
You will also need a separate bonding strip to separate the neutral and ground.
Buy a surface mount 4/8 slot breaker box. 4 15 amp breakers and 4 single outlets.
The single outlets get installed in each of the corner knockouts.
You will also need a separate bonding strip to separate the neutral and ground.
quickfarms
Adventurer
Good point.
But the the 50 amp rv plug is 220 volt not 110.
My panel is wired for 220 volt and the rv plug adapts it to 110 volt.
I might jus run the service entrance though a second 2 slot panel that would serve as the main breaker.
I need to think about this.
I'll add a little input from the marine world where we have LOTS of redundancy on shorepower for obvious reasons.
You're campsite (dock) SHOULD have a breaker for whatever service you're using (30/125, 50/125, 50/250 being the most common though there are bigger). But some older facilities may not have a breaker at the point of hook-up and instead may have a centralized set of breakers. Uncommon (and probably against code) now but I've seen it plenty of times.
As mentioned, there is a 50amp/125volt service. Looks like the 50/250, but only has one leg keyed instead of two on the 250v. You can google it if you want pics.
On a marine installation, you would have a master breaker at the point of connection to the boat in addition to the point of connection at the dock. Then at the panel you would have another master breaker that shuts down the whole panel. Then you would have your individual circuits with their breakers.
A bit overkill on an RV, but it gives a point of reference anyway.
You're campsite (dock) SHOULD have a breaker for whatever service you're using (30/125, 50/125, 50/250 being the most common though there are bigger). But some older facilities may not have a breaker at the point of hook-up and instead may have a centralized set of breakers. Uncommon (and probably against code) now but I've seen it plenty of times.
As mentioned, there is a 50amp/125volt service. Looks like the 50/250, but only has one leg keyed instead of two on the 250v. You can google it if you want pics.
On a marine installation, you would have a master breaker at the point of connection to the boat in addition to the point of connection at the dock. Then at the panel you would have another master breaker that shuts down the whole panel. Then you would have your individual circuits with their breakers.
A bit overkill on an RV, but it gives a point of reference anyway.