So i was working on wiring up my Honda EV6010 yesterday and it dawned on me that its a 50amp unit [no 30/20amp split like the later ones] but the coach is set up for 30amps.....what would you do? And if you were going to change something what would be the best course of action to do it.

I may be thinking about this to hard and it really might not matter but im not taking a chance when there is such vast knowledge and expertise out there to bounce this off of.....

6cuda6 wrote on Wed, 25 December 2019 14:14

So i was working on wiring up my Honda EV6010 yesterday and it dawned on me that its a 50amp unit [no 30/20amp split like the later ones] but the coach is set up for 30amps.....what would you do? And if you were going to change something what would be the best course of action to do it.

I may be thinking about this to hard and it really might not matter but im not taking a chance when there is such vast knowledge and expertise out there to bounce this off of.....

Do you mean that it does not have the two breakers for the output?
One of them 30 amp and the other 20 amp?

Just protect everything after the generator with an appropriate sized breaker. The line side wire to a 30 just needs to be rated for the disconnect before that (ie from the generator to the breaker should be rated for the 50 amps if that is the breaker size on the generator) anything after the 30 amp main breaker needs to be sized for it. Just be sure that the wires connected to any breaker are rated for the amp rating of the breaker.

Where this gets dicey in my opinion is someone makes up a 20 amp circuit and wires it with 12ga thwn and someone else ties into the circuit and uses 14ga wire which is only rated for 15 amps. Now the 14ga wire can be over loaded because it is protected by a 20 amp breaker.

I hope this makes at least a little sense. Best to be safe with the electric systems. No one likes a hot skin condition or under sized circuit on a motorhome.

HTH

Melbo

Voltage at batter does no mean much.
Lot of the connectors are corroded.
You need. Real experience to know these things.
That is the difference between a degreed engineer and a technician with
experience.
I put aside my degree and rely on my technical experience since my teens.

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> So i was working on wiring up my Honda EV6010 yesterday and it dawned on
> me that its a 50amp unit [no 30/20amp split like the later ones] but the
> coach is set up for 30amps.....what would you do? And if you were going to
> change something what would be the best course of action to do it.
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> I may be thinking about this to hard and it really might not matter but im
> not taking a chance when there is such vast knowledge and expertise out
> there to bounce this off of.....
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Protecting everything is important. NOTE a 30 amp RV plug is USUALLY a three prong 120 volts A standard 50 amp plug (and RV plug) is TYPICALLY 4 prong and 240 volts. When you go from 50 amps down to 30 amps you typically drop a leg. There is a plug that does that internally. It is a good idea to know if that is the case for your generator. From what I know (and that could be incorrect) that generator operates at 120 volts so you should be fine. If there are four wires that are from the power supply (green white black and red) you have a different animal than I am used to. As long as you only have the three wires (green ground -- white neutral -- and black) everything I have mentioned should be correct. Best to test everything as you go. I want you to be safe. The normal configuration on an RV outlet is ground at the top (the round hole green wire) lower left slot is the hot (the black wire) and the lower right side is the neutral (the white wire). Once again that is looking at the front of the outlet where the cord plugs in. Obviously the back side would be reversed. The screw for the hot wire (black) should be a gold screw and the neutral wire (white) screw should be silver and the ground wire screw (green) should be a green screw although that is not always the case with the ground wire.

HTH

Melbo

So if i was to just wire it up as is......

I have the stock 50amp breaker coming out of the generator...the plug setup is the standard 30amp three prong that gets connected to a normal 30amp shore power cord that is wired to a 30amp breaker in the breaker panel etc....

6cuda6 wrote on Wed, 25 December 2019 15:11

So if i was to just wire it up as is......

I have the stock 50amp breaker coming out of the generator...the plug setup is the standard 30amp three prong that gets connected to a normal 30amp shore power cord that is wired to a 30amp breaker in the breaker panel etc....

Rich,

Your confusion and uncertainty is completely understandable. Wire it up the way it is.

The 50amp possible output of the 6010 is in no way related to the 50amp RV service. The two are very different animals.

Just be sure that everything downstream of the 6010 is good for 50amps. That would be #8AWG (not #8SAE and I have no clue what Canadian wire sizes and types are) and that should be safe enough.

Now, if you have two roof A/C units and might want to run both, come back here are we will have another discussion at great length.

Matt - Back from Christmas dinner with my daughter and family.

Considering your future plans, I would just switch over to 14-50 format at this time. Switch out the panel, cordset and generator receptacle to 14-50R (jumped L1/L2) , wires from generator to 14-50R upgraded. and use the 50A breaker on the generator Otherwise you are leaving generator power on the table. Some Hondas, I think, were true 125/250 4 wire, but this does not seem the case here with 2 different breaker ratings on the generator. If it was, you could wire it 1 for 1 to the 14-50R. Two hots, neutral, ground, the latter two bonded at generator