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electrical question!?!?!
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On one end of my house I have no electrical wiring run outside except for the 220V (single phase) service to my air conditioner. It has a double pole, 40 amp circuit breaker feeding that air conditioner unit. We want to park our camper on that end of the house, and I was wondering how safe it would be to wire up a 110V box from one of the legs of the 220V air conditioner box? The camper has a 30 amp cord on it, but I took a measurement, and could only get it to draw about 16 amps with everything running. I can increase the size of the breaker if needed, but would it cause any problems with the 220V air conditioner if one leg had 10 or 15 amps drawn from it? I don't want to smoke a $3,000.00 AC unit because I didn't want to spend a few hundred bucks adding some new wiring, but on the other hand I'd rather not have to add another circuit unless I have to. Any advice greatly appreciated! |
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Keith Stelter wrote:
Ok, On one end of my house I have no electrical wiring run outside except for the 220V (single phase) service to my air conditioner. It has a double pole, 40 amp circuit breaker feeding that air conditioner unit. We want to park our camper on that end of the house, and I was wondering how safe it would be to wire up a 110V box from one of the legs of the 220V air conditioner box? It would not be safely possible to tap the A/C circuit for a 120 volt load, because no current carrying neutral is available. |
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:21:10 -0400, "Keith Stelter"
wrote: Ok, On one end of my house I have no electrical wiring run outside except for the 220V (single phase) service to my air conditioner. It has a double pole, 40 amp circuit breaker feeding that air conditioner unit. We want to park our camper on that end of the house, and I was wondering how safe it would be to wire up a 110V box from one of the legs of the 220V air conditioner box? The camper has a 30 amp cord on it, but I took a measurement, and could only get it to draw about 16 amps with everything running. I can increase the size of the breaker if needed, but would it cause any problems with the 220V air conditioner if one leg had 10 or 15 amps drawn from it? I don't want to smoke a $3,000.00 AC unit because I didn't want to spend a few hundred bucks adding some new wiring, but on the other hand I'd rather not have to add another circuit unless I have to. Any advice greatly appreciated! Do you want to run the AC at the same time you are running the camper? Whether you do or not, you need a neutral to run 110 and it's very unlikely there is one. I don't know what it takes to add one. I think you need romex or Bx, whichever your house uses. Sleep in the back yard. I don't know about yours but mine is nice. |
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"Keith Stelter" wrote in message news Ok, On one end of my house I have no electrical wiring run outside except for the 220V (single phase) service to my air conditioner. It has a double pole, 40 amp circuit breaker feeding that air conditioner unit. We want to park our camper on that end of the house, and I was wondering how safe it would be to wire up a 110V box from one of the legs of the 220V air conditioner box? The camper has a 30 amp cord on it, but I took a measurement, and could only get it to draw about 16 amps with everything running. I can increase the size of the breaker if needed, but would it cause any problems with the 220V air conditioner if one leg had 10 or 15 amps drawn from it? I don't want to smoke a $3,000.00 AC unit because I didn't want to spend a few hundred bucks adding some new wiring, but on the other hand I'd rather not have to add another circuit unless I have to. Any advice greatly appreciated! Have someone that knows electrical wiring add the circuit for you. DO NOT tie onto the air conditioning circuit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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"Bob" wrote in message t... Keith Stelter wrote: Ok, On one end of my house I have no electrical wiring run outside except for the 220V (single phase) service to my air conditioner. It has a double pole, 40 amp circuit breaker feeding that air conditioner unit. We want to park our camper on that end of the house, and I was wondering how safe it would be to wire up a 110V box from one of the legs of the 220V air conditioner box? It would not be safely possible to tap the A/C circuit for a 120 volt load, because no current carrying neutral is available. And that's not the only reason!!!!! |
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"mm" wrote in message ... On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:21:10 -0400, "Keith Stelter" wrote: Ok, On one end of my house I have no electrical wiring run outside except for the 220V (single phase) service to my air conditioner. It has a double pole, 40 amp circuit breaker feeding that air conditioner unit. We want to park our camper on that end of the house, and I was wondering how safe it would be to wire up a 110V box from one of the legs of the 220V air conditioner box? The camper has a 30 amp cord on it, but I took a measurement, and could only get it to draw about 16 amps with everything running. I can increase the size of the breaker if needed, but would it cause any problems with the 220V air conditioner if one leg had 10 or 15 amps drawn from it? I don't want to smoke a $3,000.00 AC unit because I didn't want to spend a few hundred bucks adding some new wiring, but on the other hand I'd rather not have to add another circuit unless I have to. Any advice greatly appreciated! Do you want to run the AC at the same time you are running the camper? Whether you do or not, you need a neutral to run 110 and it's very unlikely there is one. I don't know what it takes to add one. I think you need romex or Bx, whichever your house uses. Again you comment on things you know nothing about. Are you related to Stormy????? |
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The only thing you could do that would be proper and safe, would require
disconnecting the line from the AC and converting it from 240 with ground to 120 with ground, reducing the breaker to 30 amp GFCI and installing a rain tight outlet for the camper... but then you'd have to run a new feeder for the AC "Keith Stelter" wrote in message news Ok, On one end of my house I have no electrical wiring run outside except for the 220V (single phase) service to my air conditioner. It has a double pole, 40 amp circuit breaker feeding that air conditioner unit. We want to park our camper on that end of the house, and I was wondering how safe it would be to wire up a 110V box from one of the legs of the 220V air conditioner box? The camper has a 30 amp cord on it, but I took a measurement, and could only get it to draw about 16 amps with everything running. I can increase the size of the breaker if needed, but would it cause any problems with the 220V air conditioner if one leg had 10 or 15 amps drawn from it? I don't want to smoke a $3,000.00 AC unit because I didn't want to spend a few hundred bucks adding some new wiring, but on the other hand I'd rather not have to add another circuit unless I have to. Any advice greatly appreciated! |
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