Interesting, thanks Mike! The pedestals I’ve seen either have a 20A, 30A, and 50A outlet (and a breaker for each) or they only have 20A and 30A outlets, but why does this one seem to have a 20A outlets and 2-30A outlets on either side of it? I may be missing something and, if so, why do they do this? Other questions come to mind as well but hopefully Mike will tell us more.
Campground pedestals that have two 30 amp receptacles separated by two 20 amp receptacles used to be quite common in area campgrounds near me where the pedestals were shared by two campsites - I can think of one really popular campground in our area that this was (or maybe still is if they haven't upgraded) the normal for the majority of their campsites that didn't have 50 amp receptacles, and some posts had double everything 2 50's 2 30's and sometimes even two 20's so that they could still be shared. I remember the fun of when some would just flip off all the breakers in the box as they were leaving because that turned off power to your unit also (I'm not always certain that was unintentional).
Thanks Jim! Makes sense that this is for a shared pedestal. I only saw one 20A outlet in the picture but the other one might have been obscured by the camera angle or the large 30A plugs.
How do you feel about an RV that has a 50 amp receptacle on it, but it has 2 - 30 amp breakers in the box and the wire itself is smaller and stranded? Does the math work the same way in the rv's case?
Campground pedestals that have two 30 amp receptacles separated by two 20 amp receptacles used to be quite common in area campgrounds near me where the pedestals were shared by two campsites - I can think of one really popular campground in our area that this was (or maybe still is if they haven't upgraded) the normal for the majority of their campsites that didn't have 50 amp receptacles, and some posts had double everything 2 50's 2 30's and sometimes even two 20's so that they could still be shared. I remember the fun of when some would just flip off all the breakers in the box as they were leaving because that turned off power to your unit also (I'm not always certain that was unintentional).
Interesting, thanks Mike! The pedestals I’ve seen either have a 20A, 30A, and 50A outlet (and a breaker for each) or they only have 20A and 30A outlets, but why does this one seem to have a 20A outlets and 2-30A outlets on either side of it? I may be missing something and, if so, why do they do this? Other questions come to mind as well but hopefully Mike will tell us more.
Campground pedestals that have two 30 amp receptacles separated by two 20 amp receptacles used to be quite common in area campgrounds near me where the pedestals were shared by two campsites - I can think of one really popular campground in our area that this was (or maybe still is if they haven't upgraded) the normal for the majority of their campsites that didn't have 50 amp receptacles, and some posts had double everything 2 50's 2 30's and sometimes even two 20's so that they could still be shared. I remember the fun of when some would just flip off all the breakers in the box as they were leaving because that turned off power to your unit also (I'm not always certain that was unintentional).
Thanks Jim! Makes sense that this is for a shared pedestal. I only saw one 20A outlet in the picture but the other one might have been obscured by the camera angle or the large 30A plugs.
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How do you feel about an RV that has a 50 amp receptacle on it, but it has 2 - 30 amp breakers in the box and the wire itself is smaller and stranded? Does the math work the same way in the rv's case?
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I've never seen a pedestal with two 30 amp receptacles.
Campground pedestals that have two 30 amp receptacles separated by two 20 amp receptacles used to be quite common in area campgrounds near me where the pedestals were shared by two campsites - I can think of one really popular campground in our area that this was (or maybe still is if they haven't upgraded) the normal for the majority of their campsites that didn't have 50 amp receptacles, and some posts had double everything 2 50's 2 30's and sometimes even two 20's so that they could still be shared. I remember the fun of when some would just flip off all the breakers in the box as they were leaving because that turned off power to your unit also (I'm not always certain that was unintentional).