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electrical question!?!?!
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! If I were you, I'd get another breaker and enough 10-3 UF cable as you need. Make up an extension cord on the end by the camper, and temporarily wire it to the extra breaker. Then just run it out a basement window and over to you camper. This is probably not legal, but its only temporary. On the other hand, you could run that same cable (or NM) thru the basement and out the same place the AC power comes out the house. Then just put a permanent outlet there. If you have an open basement ceiling, its not that big of a job or expense. |
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