Anyone with good wiring sense??

[Racer220]

Need some advise on a project. My gooseneck has scary wiring and we are wanting to setup a better 110V system than the previous owners had. I gutted the living quarters portion of my gooseneck and want to redo all the wiring so its similar to a 50A 120v RV setup without any DC runs. Question is:

I have a 200A panel from a house demo the I want to put a double-pole 50A cb in as the main and be able to send one run to the lights and outlets for the living quarters, and the other run for lights and outlets in the shop area. I already know that the 14-50R recessed receptacle will accept whatever comes in for shore power and I will just wire the 50A circuit breaker as 120V (instead of having both hot wires on the same circuit like you would see in a dryer wiring setup). Is there any issue with this as long as I don't overload either side of the 50A with too much stuff (which would trip it anyway)?? I don't want to have to go out and buy a panel if this one will work. Any tips or info better than what I described would be awesome. Thx

racer

p.s. I have all the guage/length charts and other things pretty much squared away for the wiring based off Amps for each run and shore power. The reason for the 50A service is to possibly add an additional A/C unit in the shop area in the future.

 

[KSH]

Need some advise on a project. My gooseneck has scary wiring and we are wanting to setup a better 110V system than the previous owners had. I gutted the living quarters portion of my gooseneck and want to redo all the wiring so its similar to a 50A 120v RV setup without any DC runs. Question is:

I have a 200A panel from a house demo the I want to put a double-pole 50A cb in as the main and be able to send one run to the lights and outlets for the living quarters, and the other run for lights and outlets in the shop area. I already know that the 14-50R recessed receptacle will accept whatever comes in for shore power and I will just wire the 50A circuit breaker as 120V (instead of having both hot wires on the same circuit like you would see in a dryer wiring setup). Is there any issue with this as long as I don't overload either side of the 50A with too much stuff (which would trip it anyway)?? I don't want to have to go out and buy a panel if this one will work. Any tips or info better than what I described would be awesome. Thx

racer

p.s. I have all the guage/length charts and other things pretty much squared away for the wiring based off Amps for each run and shore power. The reason for the 50A service is to possibly add an additional A/C unit in the shop area in the future.

I'm no electrician.
The highest breaker size for those circuits, if just general use would be 20 amps, you will want a single pole single throw breakers.
Use one for outlets and the other for lights.
You want it so that if you blow a breaker on the outlets you will not lose your lights.
Also you would want the air conditioner on a separate circuit.

JMO

 

[knzee]

Dryer circuit's don't have both hot wires on the same circuit. Each leg is on a seperate leg of 120 giving you 240 volts between them, and 120 volts to ground for each. You can use it how you are stating. Put one leg for the lights and one leg for the outlets and then run two seperate nutural conductors for each circuit. You will have to remove the center piece that makes it a double pole and now you have two single pole's. Nothing is going to be protected...Your 50 amp breakers require #6 cu wire or your wire will burn up before you trip the breakers. Your outlets are 15 or 20 amp rated so they will burn up before the breaker trips. You will have 20 or so slots on the panel that are not being used. You will have to make sure your grounding is correct especially on a trailer that is ungrounded when hooked to a truck. I would just save the 2hundy for a later project. go get a 60 amp service box and some 15 or 20 amp breakers with #12 wire.

Need some advise on a project. My gooseneck has scary wiring and we are wanting to setup a better 110V system than the previous owners had. I gutted the living quarters portion of my gooseneck and want to redo all the wiring so its similar to a 50A 120v RV setup without any DC runs. Question is:

I have a 200A panel from a house demo the I want to put a double-pole 50A cb in as the main and be able to send one run to the lights and outlets for the living quarters, and the other run for lights and outlets in the shop area. I already know that the 14-50R recessed receptacle will accept whatever comes in for shore power and I will just wire the 50A circuit breaker as 120V (instead of having both hot wires on the same circuit like you would see in a dryer wiring setup). Is there any issue with this as long as I don't overload either side of the 50A with too much stuff (which would trip it anyway)?? I don't want to have to go out and buy a panel if this one will work. Any tips or info better than what I described would be awesome. Thx

racer

p.s. I have all the guage/length charts and other things pretty much squared away for the wiring based off Amps for each run and shore power. The reason for the 50A service is to possibly add an additional A/C unit in the shop area in the future.