I have built a new barn and want a plug-in for my LQ. My electrician wants to know what he needs to install. I'm a girl! I don't know! Anybody want to tell me what I should tell the electrician to install so I can have electric just like I would if I were plugged in at a show?
Posted 2013-01-21 4:56 PM (#149448 - in reply to #149446) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 3802 Location: Rocky Mount N.C.
Is your trailer wired for 20 amp, 30 amp or 50 amp? If you don't know have that electrician take a look at it, then he'll know exactly what to wire up for a service...
Posted 2013-01-21 5:39 PM (#149449 - in reply to #149446) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 4
Location: TX
Thank you!
I'll have him look at the trailer. Maybe there is something on it that will tell him. All I know is that I can pull into any show and plug in and be good to go. I wish I knew what the arenas used.
Posted 2013-01-21 7:14 PM (#149451 - in reply to #149446) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 656 Location: Rayne, LA
If you can take a picture of a receptacle that you plug into or a pic of the plug on the end of the trailer wire and show that to your electrician. Good Luck
Posted 2013-01-21 7:43 PM (#149452 - in reply to #149446) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 178 Location: Richmond, Ky
Most RV type plugs will be 30 amp, that is what I encounter around most campsites. If you have a fairly large LQ and several electrical appliances you might have a 50 amp, normally most campgrounds use the 30 amp RV plug. If your trailer connection looks like it would plug into your receptacles in your house it will be the 20 amp. Your electrician needs to double check and make sure for himself.
Posted 2013-01-23 8:04 AM (#149489 - in reply to #149446) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 800 Location: Tenn/Ala.
Just make sure your electrician knows it is a 110V 30 amp recep. We have seen "electricians" wire them 220, as it just isn't a fixture that many of them have seen and it favors some of the specialty 220 plugs. 220V = bad things when you plug your LQ in.
Posted 2013-01-23 12:46 PM (#149500 - in reply to #149489) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 2954 Location: North Carolina
Originally written by RTSmith on 2013-01-23 5:04 AM
Just make sure your electrician knows it is a 110V 30 amp recep. We have seen "electricians" wire them 220, as it just isn't a fixture that many of them have seen and it favors some of the specialty 220 plugs. 220V = bad things when you plug your LQ in. And yes- 95+ % of RVs and LQs are this plug.
GOOD Point ... Bears repeating ... Total burn out of your trailer if 220 volts is applied to a trailer.
If your not comfortable opening up the electrical panel and working inside, get some professional help. Don't want to kill yourself or burn the barn down.
Posted 2013-02-02 8:08 AM (#149650 - in reply to #149446) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 218 Location: Ohio
Look at your plug on the trailer, if it has a normal house hold looking plug, it is 20amp, if it does not look like your house hold plug but still has three "prongs" on it, it is 30 amp, if it has four, it is 50 amp.
Make sure when he wires it in that he has a circuit for the right amperage. I wired in a 30 amp circuit and plug to a house I used to have and it worked nice to use for the AC. Having said that, you can run most anything on your trailer with a 20 amp normal house plug and an adapter. The main one you can't is the AC. If you are not going to run that, and only want to keep the batteries charged, use some lights and run the refrigerator, you probably don't need the higher amp plug. We just use an adapter for the 30amp to 15amp and plug it into the garage for charging the batteries or cooling the frige.
In any case, I will repeat what someone already said, make sure he wires it for 110 volts, not 220. It may look like a clothes dryer plug but it isn't!
Posted 2013-02-02 10:02 AM (#149657 - in reply to #149446) Subject: RE: RV plugs
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Posts: 4
Location: TX
These responses have given me a wealth of information. I have printed all of these out and am going to double check with my electrician to make sure he has the plug wired correctly. I have since determined I have a 30 amp plug.
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