High-voltage damage to your RV

Please take this poll about high-voltage outlets at a campground or house...

Everyone,

There were a lot of interesting comments on yesterday’s poll about low-voltages at campgrounds. So let’s keep the party going and take a poll about high-voltage damages to your RV. And these high voltages not only occur at campgrounds, they can also happen at your bricks and sticks house when you pay an electrician to install an outlet for your RV.

Some of the causes…

There’s lot of ways that high-voltage damage can happen with both 30- and 50-amp RV outlets. Here’s a few off the top of my head.

• Loose neutral on a campground or home 50-amp outlet

• Plugging into a 14-50 outlet wired without a neutral for an EV charger

• Using a welding outlet adapter to plug in your 50-amp RV

• An electrician wiring a 30-amp outlet with 2-pole, 240-volts like an electric dryer

• Campground electrician mis-understanding a 3-phase, high-leg Delta service panel and sending 208 volts to 30-amp campground pedestals

• Power company setting transformer taps too high

• Lightning hitting the ground or wires at your campground or house

Please take this poll and add your comments below

Let’s play safe out there… Mike