Install an RV Power Outlet / Install RV Outlet At Home / 30 or 50 Amp RV Outlet DIY / How To

Wat was the braker you used please love the video help me understand please

Thanks for video , wat size gauge wire you use

Yeah. That wire is expensive. I had to buy 100’ to run mine. $275.

Best practice would be to wiggle the stranded wire as you tighten and to use a torque screwdriver to tighten to the correct torque. Some anti-oxidation compound would be helpful also.

I think you only need 8 awg for 50 amps. Especially that short of a run.

Good video! Safety first he says, then she says or last lol

Great Video!!

Thank you for posting a (not how to video ) you helped me out so much. Around here Elections charge up wards $ 250.00 per hour.

Thanks I hooked up my RV 50 amp watching your “How too” lol video buzzzzzz⚡️ ahhhh!!

Question would it be a 100 amp breaker in the main panel or a 50 amp

Do you turn on both sides of the breaker?

your camera person is horrible, they were more interested in filming your face than what you were doing.

As more & more people (1.7M 2023) buy EVs this project
should become more and more common to charge @ home.

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Thank you.I like that ur wife keeps an eye on your safety 👍🏻👍🏻

Is that a double pole 50 or 25?

I have a question is that a sub panel or is it being fed directly from the power company, if not your panel's ground needs to be connected to a ground rod also in the panel the grounds and neutrals need to be separated on their own bars. Just saying. I heard you say something to the effect about being out here no inspection, but you still should want to be safe.

What happened to the ground wire outside did you connect it to the box around?

Thank you!

Nice install. Another way to look at the difference (30 amp vs. 50 amp):

30 amps x 120 volts = 3600 watts total.
50 amps x 120 volts = 6000 watts (per leg).
6000 watts x 2 legs = 12,000 watts total.

Something to consider: Someone else down here in the comment section also mentioned that grounds and neutrals should be separated in a sub-panel. That is true. They also mentioned driving two ground rods. The ground rods are for the first point of disconnect, not necessary for a sub-panel. Cheers.

I know this is a stupid question, but you used a 50 amp circuit breaker for that install? I didn’t catch it in the video.

U bonded the neutral and ground in a sub panel. Not correct

how do i use the line

Thanks brother

Were can I get that protected plug and $

You said that is a subpannel . Your neutral and ground should never be bonded in a subpannel. Only in the main. You really need to separate them .

I think i married your Wifes sister...always on me about safety glasses....and she's usually right.

what size breaker are you plugging the hot legs in to?

Will my 50 amp box in the garage run a 50 amp RV plug ?

A couple of points I'm inspired to make after watching:
1. Perhaps in the RV world the neutral is still commonly (ha!) left off. But today's code for 30A circuits in the home (typically dryers) requires a neutral. There's no other proper/safe way to split out 120V without a neutral. I say this only to point out that 30A doesn't automatically that 2-conductor wire could or should be used. This will depend on your receptacle. And I'd love ot see 4-conductor receptacles used for all this.
2. A 240V 50A circuit does sort of mean 100A total. But that doubling of A is sort of a fantom. And that's because a 50A breaker is supposed to trip above 50A, no matter the voltage. So if you load up 50A on one 120V leg.... when you turn the oven on that's connected to the other leg, the breaker should trip.
3. Thanks for doing this in such a no-nonsense way.

110 or 220?

I guess I’ve been doing the safety wrong. I’ve been doing safety third but farmers don’t have safety first.

What size breaker did you use?

Can I use romex underground if it’s buried and ran through conduit? Trying to run me a Rv as well but have about a 25ft run underground that would have to happen.

My 30 amp on generator is 220 and takes the same rv cable. With that said I did not now rv out let boxes were a different set up . How ever I set up a 50 amp any how I ran off my main out door panel to connect my mobile work shop to and on my work shop I installed a 50 amp twist lock which runs to basically a subpanel I would say inside

Great video I thought my camper was a 50 amp 110 camper but obviously this is 220 or am I missing something?

Great video very well explained gracias my friend

I just wanted to get an idea what is involved. Thanks for the video. It really helped.

Double pole breaker 50 amp?

I'm a big proponent of safety glasses. I've had 2 good eyes for the last 45 years only because I was wearing safety glasses when a drill bit broke. It took a chunk out of the middle of one lens. Please, wear your glasses.

My stepdad got shocked twice, once when he was repairing an air compressor, and once when he was fixing a boat lift fuse

Well you are exactly right my friend had a thirty amp for 5years just caught a great deal on a 2022 tv of course I pick it up today and bam fifty amp lol didn’t know about the two leg thanks for the video

Husband: Safety First!!!!

Wife: Or last.....

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So I may have missed it… you wired that into a 50amp double pole breaker correct?

This was an extremely helpful video, straight forward and informative. Thank You for posting it.
Machinist, Steve....

So if I upgrade the amo does it have to be short or can I run it to the other side of my house. Where I want to put the rv is on the opposite side of breaker

Applies safety squints, pokes self in eye while doing so. Yup were safer than we were before the squints. Lets drill some holes.

I like your video, especially hearing your wife explain the need for safety glasses. Mine’s the same.

Nice job! For your and others consideration. You said in other comments you have a 100a “Service”, not a Sub-panel. Great, I avoided the combined the ground and neutral comment. You used #6/3 WG cable for 50 amperes. Totally acceptable. But if one can not find #6/3, #8/3 WG is completely acceptable, unless like 100’ or more away. No big deal! But, something very strange. It looked as though you have a ground conductor coming in with the service entrance conductors. That is not normal. Normally, no ground in the entrance and a GEC going to a grounding electrode.
So, guessing here, if you have a utility feed going to a meter, then an exterior panel, with a breaker that feeds this building, then it IS a sub-panel. If so, very easy fix. Remove the horizontal bar across the bottom of the panel and put all neutrals on the right and all grounds on the left. Then install a #6 bare out to two ground rods. This is for your safety. Hope wife reads this. Separation is for short circuit safety, ground rods are for lightning.
Please consider fixing it! The life you save may just be your own!
Respectfully, Kevin

I do believe they make a outdoor box that has both the 30 amp 120 and the 50 amp 120/240 receptacle inside. And you would use either depending on which plug your rv comes with. And also if you just so happened to have some Thhn/THWN dual rated as most thhn is laying around and you wanted to run conduit or maybe that short of a run even flex metallic or nonmetallic. You would be able to use a #10 ground and a # 8 for the 50 amp circuit because it is rated 50 amps at 75 degrees C which that receptacle is and circuit breakers are dual rated 60/75 so they are rated for 75 degree C. And it probably will cost more depending on where you get your wire from since it would be individual rolls, but this method works too with the NM 6/3 cable, since it’s rated I believe 55 amps in the 60 degree C column of table 310.15(b)(16). But either way great video. Keep doing what you do.