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    Voltage Drop at an RV Park

    Just to update everyone, the problem was discovered to be on the electricity provider side. The wires running from the transformer into the gutter and divided between the three meters was not large enough to carry the load of the three meters (or a wire was bad). The electricity company...
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    Voltage Drop at an RV Park

    Will do! Didn't know it was important :)
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    Voltage Drop at an RV Park

    So just to check in with you again, the electric service provider is going to install a voltage tracking device this week. We are still experiencing higher than normal voltage drops in the lines. Everything remains the same. At the box, the voltage is fairly normal, 120V and 119V in. These...
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    Voltage Drop at an RV Park

    Thanks again Lucien. I have attached the calculator where I derived an 8.5V drop in our line at the end of the 6 pedestals. If you get a chance, take a look. I'm not sure what the "Number of Conductors" means. We do have ~100-amps of use, but it is spread out along the line at 6 different RV...
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    Voltage Drop at an RV Park

    OMG! Thank you all so much for these suggestions. We are going to spend the day trying to figure it out again. We are going to try to measure resistance on each leg. I don't have a loop impedance tester unfortunately. If I can't figure it out today I'll make sure an electrician comes out...
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    Voltage Drop at an RV Park

    First, I really appreciate any feedback you can provide. Its awesome to have a group of people that have a passion for this! Our RV Park has a transformer dropping service down into three 200-amp meters (single-phase 240V service X 3). From each of these three meters, we have an emergency...

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