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gfunkdave

You need to change the breaker and call an electrician, who may need to run new wiring anyway. This is a 240v receptacle. The “30 amp” RV receptacles are 120v. You’d need to land one of the hots on the neutral bus and see if you can use the existing neutral wire as a ground - I’m not sure if code allows ground to be a wire that isn’t bare or green.


Ovrl

Ok thanks!


Ovrl

Would it be easier to just add a new 120v30a to a new breaker if there’s room?


ifitwasnt4u

If you have room and ability, you could. Yes, you can repurpose a wire to ground. You have to mark the ends with white and green electrical tape to mark. Turn off breaker of course! So you install a 30 amp outlet in its place, put the black to gold terminal, red wire, wraps white electrical tape around near the end and wire to the silver terminal. And ground should already be green. Or if it's white, then use the white wire as common and then tape the red wire green. Then take out the 220 breaker put in a 30 amp breaker and put your neutral and gnd wires in place and your black wire to the new breaker. Super easy peasy


gfunkdave

It depends on how close the panel is or how much trouble it would be to run new wiring to that location.


LooseLynx1522

as far as the ground goes the canadian electrical code allows for green tape or phasing paint to. e used to identify the bond


e_l_tang

A TT-30 RV receptacle is 120V while the current 10-50 receptacle is 240V. You'd have to change the breaker from a double-pole 50A to a single-pole 30A, and revise the wiring connections in the electrical panel accordingly.


flyingron

It also lacks a ground, but it's probably possible to reuse the neutral wire as a ground once you make one of the hots the neutral.


teh_trout

You should be able to do this without much trouble (running new wire). That receptacle is ungrounded but if you only need 120v you shouldn’t need to rewire. You’ll want to change the breaker to 30a and the wiring will need to be changed in the panel from hot/hot/neutral to hot/neutral/ground but then you could install a 120v 30a socket.


Ovrl

Excellent. Thanks friend