We are leaving Omaha now. Be there in a few hours. LETS GO CYCLONES!!!
RV Village - Assignments
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Probably a tree sap concoction, works great to keep dust down. Although is a little sticky until it drys. 2-3 days.
And I became the fourth. We are all set up and watching a replay of the Missery game from last night.
If you run more than 100 amps that’s crazy. I’m not an RV guy, so maybe someone could enlighten me, is that not enough juice? I mean, a lot of houses still run on 100 amp services. Or is this 100 amps for 2 RVs?
They use the porta potty strained remnants. Why you see small bits of paper once in awhile.
The RV's will use only one of the electrical outlets on the panel (not all three) for power to the RV. The outlet choices are: 20A, 30A and RV50A. With the modern Electrical Management System that a lot of RV's are equipped with the entire RV including dual air conditioners can run off of a 30A outlet (3,600 watts of power). The 50A outlet (12,000 watts of power) will power the largest motorhomes/5th wheels with three air conditioners with power to spare.
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Thanks for the clarification. Never have done RV stuff myself but figured since every single RV pedestal I’ve installed is that same setup, there wouldn’t be an issue even with everything running at the same time. You could use all 3 at the same time if you wanted though. What kind of rig would use a 120v 30 amp breaker?
You've installed RV pedestals-that's great! Just as a little further discussion, an RV could hook up to the RV50A outlet for the RV power and then also hook up an outside amplifier and speakers to the 20A outlet or say an outdoor refrigerator, or portable sat dish, etc. The panel is pretty flexible in that regard. Although theoretically there is a total of 100 A available at the pedestal using all three outlets, in reality all three outlets would not be used at the same time.
A motorhome or trailer will only have one electrical service cord and that is either 30A or 50A not both. Most motorhomes and trailers come with a 30A service. These might be smaller ones that have just one air conditioner or larger ones with two air conditioners but also have an Electrical Management System. The EMS will temporarily shed loads automatically if needed depending on what is being used in the RV.
Some older RV parks only have the 30A and 20A outlets on the panel. In that case, if your RV had a 50A electrical service then you would use a 30A to 50A adapter but only 30A of power would be available.
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There are the usual trolleys, but also special trolleys for folks who are parking tonight in G6 in order to take them where they want to go in the RV Village. However, I think that is just for today (Friday).
Yes. Journeyman A electrician who has had to do a few pedestals but have never used them. I stay on the commercial side of things mostly, but electricity is electricity. So if you have a 30 amp single pole, your rig doesn’t have any 240v equipment? Are older RV park peds 2 pole 30s? I guess I just don’t understand that single pole 30. I would have imagined in the pedestal it would have been a 2 pole 30 and a 2 pole 50 along with the standard 20 amp outlet. The pedestal could handle it just looking at the photo.
Yes, the RV's are all 120v there is no 240v equipment in them. Some of them do have clothes dryers in them and I'm not sure how those are handled. The questions about the one or two pole 30A outlets are a bit beyond me. The 30A outlet has a single 30A feed whereas the 50A outlet has two separate 50 A feeds. That's why you only get 3,600 watts from a 30A outlet and 12,000 watts from a 50A outlet.
Cummins makes almost all of the RV generators now and they put out some good information on electrical usage in RV's: https://www.cummins.com/news/2021/04/12/what-size-generator-do-i-need-power-rv
A good, technical discussion of the pedestal wiring along with good wiring diagrams can be found here and I must say it's a bit over my head. As I understand it, the red and the black wires are 180 degrees out-of-phase so that gives you two separate 50A circuits. I think that the article will better answer some of your questions though.
https://www.rv.com/archive/power-trip-101/
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Power seems to be working, we ran both AC’s all day and no problem.
I see @ChrisMWilliams in row one. How’s was that bourbon from Omaha ??
I see @ChrisMWilliams in row one. How’s was that bourbon from Omaha ??
Power working good for us. The trolley guy said they got everything installed a running in time.
RV lots are super nice. Definitely going to be a different feel than the RV lots of the past. Has more of a campground feel.