Thank you! I had thought perhaps that's what it was but wanted to make sure as I am running the shore power to the new inverter and from the inverter back to the main panel.
Jack,
On our coach the power in to the circuit breaker box comes in where a 50AMP DPDT CB 2 & 4 giving power to both legs in the coach. The buddy plug power comes out the top of the circuit breaker box (where in our houses the incoming power is).
Hank & Natalie Bensley
2001 Double Slide #586.
2021 Cherokee Trailhawk Toad
Port Orange, FL. Upcoming Snowbirds in Endwell, NY
To clarify Hank’s post, the circuit breaker panel is a “main lug only” configuration. The incoming, from the xfer switch, is fed into a two pole 50A CB (MAIN) making the vertical buss bars energized. The buddy plug is connected to the “Main lugs” and is protected by the two pole 50A CB as are all the other breakers.
(09-03-2023, 04:33 AM)bestgenman Wrote: To clarify Hank’s post, the circuit breaker panel is a “main lug only” configuration. The incoming, from the xfer switch, is fed into a two pole 50A CB (MAIN) making the vertical buss bars energized. The buddy plug is connected to the “Main lugs” and is protected by the two pole 50A CB as are all the other breakers.
An electrician’s jargon!
Excellent to know. I am sure I would be confused if I was looking inside the panel and saw that it was a MLO load center and there were wires on it plus it had a main breaker back-feeding the panel.
Not sure how I feel about this though, I think I would rather it have its own breaker to be able to isolate the buddy plug if need be.
I ended up adding a buddy plug to my Wanderlodge. I ended up using tandem breakers to free up some space in the panel for the buddy plug breaker. I did this with the convenience outlet circuits that I knew that there would not be much load on them.