[Larry & Diane]

Dick, If you want a camp site type pedastal, call Jon(he used to make them) otherwise just wire one in to the side of your house or garage. At the shop we made a pedastal at my house it’s just a 30 A on the side of the house. 30 A is all you really need, it runs refrig, batt chrgs and enough AC. Dump is basiclly a hole in the ground connected to your sanitary sewer.

[Archived]

It all depends on your setup, where you are parking in relation to your power panel.

Interior Installation: The simplest way. I was “lucky” and our panel was just next to one of the garage doors and both were in reach of the power cord from the bus. I installed the 50A/220V plug just below the power panel. I only needed to run the 50A supply wires about 2 feet in the wall and only needed to make one small opening for the 50A socket. Very easy. The garage door closes on top of the power cord just fine. Cost (wire, breaker, plug) about $50. Having full power to the bus, priceless.

Exterior Installation: 2nd best way. Find a spot on the outside wall that is close to the power panel on the inside. Run the wire through the wall to an outdoor enclosure for the plug in.

Campground Installation: If you need to run the wire underground some distance away, you’ll need to figure out the wire size depending on the distance. Dig a trench, set a post, install an outdoor case for your plug, drill through your house wall, run the conduit. and pull your wire. Quite a bit of work.

In all cases, if you are not very comfortable around electricity, please hire an electrician to do the hook-up and the work around the panel. You can still do all the grunt work.

Gerald

[AL]

Home Depot and Lowe’s both carry 50 amp plugs already mounted in an outside box for under $30.

Davy

[Mike]

Dick,

You can see Jon’s company built products on the advertiser site here on PC.

Go to : Advertisers

Devices and components

scroll down to Jamestown Mfg

[Chris]

Big Al your presence is required on another thread.

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Dick, remember also that you have to have the power available. At the shop we had plenty, at home not so much. But, if no one is staying in the coach, what would you need 50 A for ? The cost difference is negledgable. As for a dump, we have Love’s(94 & Ryan Rd.) which works comming or going.

[Greg]

Dick,

http://www.jamestownadvanced.com

I’m not selling anything, but do know the 50.30/20 I have at my house works great on several levels. The 50 amp is obviously needed. But if we have friends over and we plug them in, they get the 50 and I use the 30 just to keep mine powered up. The 20 is used as an auxiliary and it is convenient to use for trouble lights when working on the bus, or to plug in a vacuum to clean the bays or just convenient for any purpose.

I have a dump also and it goes to my septic tank. In fact when the garage was built all the services were located where they would be in a campground for filling, dumping and power.

[orren]

Dick, be sure that the receptacle that you get is flush with the surface of the box or protruding slightly, not recessed.

I bought a “campground box” that looked great but since our 50 amp plugs normall are 90° plugs, a metal ridge near the bottom of the receptacle would not allow the plug to be fully inserted. I ended up doing some sheet metal work to remove the ridge and all is well.

If you can avoid the problem to begin with, it will be worth it.