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Electrical riddle
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Well I called Forrest and with his advice and explanation I have deduced the following. This campground has 100amps for every 2 sites. . They just finished an expansion and all 40 of the new sites appear to have the same issue. The interesting issue involves the fix.. They have approximately 12 sub-panels that each run about 12 sites. Each circuit(2 campsites) should be a 200 amp service not a 100 amp service. So if they screwed up only on the size of the breaker in the sub panel, they can just swap to new breakers..But if the wire size is wrong to handle 200 amp they will have to wire to each site individually so redo spout 70 sites. Or pull 200 amp wire through the existing conduit. From my research 100 amp wire is about the size of a pencil. 200 amp is about the size of your finger. It appears to be 100 amp wire.. so I'm betting the electric company that installed this is not going to get a very nice phone call tomorrow.

In the mean time they are not going to park anyone in my adjoining camp site so I have access to all 100 amps. They have been very nice but I would be rather upset if I was the owner.

My guess is the electrical company that installed the service thought that 50 ampService at an rv park meant 25 amps per leg not 50...

Marc Newman
Formerly Newell 422, 507, 512 701


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Electrical riddle - by Yachts - 09-23-2017, 10:48 PM
RE: Electrical riddle - by Guy - 09-24-2017, 05:02 AM
RE: Electrical riddle - by 77newell - 09-24-2017, 08:41 AM
RE: Electrical riddle - by folivier - 09-24-2017, 12:05 PM
RE: Electrical riddle - by Yachts - 09-24-2017, 01:03 PM
RE: Electrical riddle - by Yachts - 09-24-2017, 02:18 PM
RE: Electrical riddle - by Guy - 09-25-2017, 08:44 AM

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