Need electricians help!

[h2447intx]

for anyone one a little more electric skills than me , this is my plan and would like some input as to what what I may need or what I may be doing wrong


I am putting a 10x16 storage shed on my lease .

I have an rv receptacle , 30a and I want to run plug from the receptacle to a breaker box on the side of the shed , will a reg 30am rv cable work? just cut the end off and hard wire to the breaker box ?

i have a 125a breaker box with six breaker spots , 3- 30a breakers , 3-20a breakers

50' 12/3 indoor nm-b wire for the outlets and lights ,

only looking to put about 4 outlets in for power and 3 lights , 2 inside on switch and one outside on switch .

have a portable ac only pulls 9.8a , fig a microwave and mini fridge , heater in the winter time .


so would what i have be ok and will the rv plug to breaker box work or am i over loading anything ?

[super_dave]

Your plug is single phase. If you wire it to your box, using black as L1 and white as a neutral, only half of your breakers will be hot. You will have to make a jumper to L2 from L1 to make all breakers hot. THIS WILL NOT WORK A 240 volt plug. ie some welder, air compressor, etc

[super_dave]

I wouldn't think it would be overloaded. I had the same 125a panel in my old garage and it was fed with a 50amp 2 pole breaker.

You're best bet is to convert the RV plug to 2pole and make you're panel 2 pole. May not be code, but won't be near as prone to overloading

[super_dave]

Change all you're breakers to 20 amps also if you use the #10 RV cord

[h2447intx]

OK

See if I Get this , if I use a RV cable to plug in to the outlet I have I would need to run a hot jumper to the other leg of the breaker box. And all my breakers need to be 20A.

I'm guessing my best bet is to run a ground to the outside as well / ground rod. ?

[h2447intx]

I'll post a pic of the breaker box I got when I get home .

[holepuncher]

When it comes to Electricity, when you feel or smell it, its too late. What you are doing is wrong, DEAD wrong. You have 3 wires in your RV recept right.
#1. You don't have enough conductors.
#2. The conductors you have are not large enough.
How is your RV plug fed? through a conduit? or romex.
A word of advice to a fellow GS member, save money on a plumbing project.
I have never heard of Homeowner drowning because of a water leak.
Ask around there are " Licensed "electricians looking to make extra cash everywhere.
may not be cheaper than doing it yourself but at least it will be done right.

If you do go forward with this project the way you described , don't put anything of value in building,and I hope the breaker feeding your RV plug works when it needs to.

[h2447intx]

Noted.

[the-butcher]

It will work just replace all 30 amp w 20 and use white leg as 2nd hot leg and ground as neutral and put a ground out of breaker box to a ground rod. Good to go.

[Txjourneyman]

When it comes to Electricity, when you feel or smell it, its too late. What you are doing is wrong, DEAD wrong. You have 3 wires in your RV recept right.
#1. You don't have enough conductors.
#2. The conductors you have are not large enough.
How is your RV plug fed? through a conduit? or romex.
A word of advice to a fellow GS member, save money on a plumbing project.
I have never heard of Homeowner drowning because of a water leak.
Ask around there are " Licensed "electricians looking to make extra cash everywhere.
may not be cheaper than doing it yourself but at least it will be done right.

If you do go forward with this project the way you described , don't put anything of value in building,and I hope the breaker feeding your RV plug works when it needs to.

Well said.

[h2447intx]

This is the box I got .

[dhillis]

looks similar to the box I have. you need a grounding bar exactly like the neutral one that you see there in the box already. make sure there is no green screw in the neutral bar as ground and neutral need to be isolated in a sub panel box. can sub panel box be installed near main box? how far is it to trailer?

[h2447intx]

Done .

Thanks for the input .