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Most 208 I've run across is up around 210 to 212, electric driers only use one leg for the drier motor and that's 120volt so just like a cook range 208 is no problem they will just draw a little more amperage on the heating elements. If you look real close there are a loot of things rated  208...

Every subpanel is required to have a ground wire back to the man service panel bonded to the neutral that's bonded to a ground rod at that point only. Denny

You are on the right track but i would wire multiple pedestals to each combination with a full size neutral (required by code to handle unbalanced loads) and a ground wire also required by code. Denny

In the photo so just the first coil frosting with no air over the coil, if it had a full charge of gas it would frost all the way down and to the compressor on the suction line (the bigger line) in a very short period of time. So it's almost out of gas or the compressor is bad. The only way to...

EMS systems monitor each leg for for 120 volts only, at my home base where we store the trailer I installed a 50 amp rec that only has one 20 amp 120 line to it and jumped the two lines together and the EMS can care less, same goes when when I use a 50 to 30 adapter. Denny

Sounds like a dry blower motor bearing, no real fix besides replacing the motor. Denny

All rv units are capillary tubs, if that's the way it frost when its together so the fan will move air over the coil then its short of gas or the compressor isn't pumping right. Denny

I think I know what you are saying you have and it would be a Y wired transformer giving you giving 3 equal legs of 120 volts and 208 across any two legs (a good way to check if you have a Y system), its common on some ground mounted transformers common in RV parks. All you have to be concerned...

Did you ever think cleaning it up and repainting it. Denny

No access to the refrigerator or bathroom is a none starter. Denny

My Dometic refrigerator cooling unit went out a couple of years ago and I replaced it with a Amish new cooling unit and it works better than the original. Denny

If you are going to install a residential refrigerator in a rv there are a few things you will have to keep in mind. 1st  don't use one that uses the case for condenser, it's the type that the case gets warm when running. In most cases there isn't enough free air movement to cool the unit...

I was in the refrigeration business for years and spent many hours getting outside units to run in cold weather, when its cold the refrigerant will not turn boil off into a gas so the compressor can't build pressure.  On commercial units we had controls to compensate for the cold but a household...

If your outside vents are still open it maybe to cold where the compressor is located,easy to fix by just closing them off for the winter. What happens when the compressor part of the refrigerator is to cold the the compressor can't generate enough heat to build up pressure in the system so you...

If your element and burner are working so the cooling unit is bad, I replaced ours with a new Amish unit a couple of years ago and it works better than ever. I'm from a refrigeration background and anyone with some mechanical background can change one out. Denny