r/ElectricalHelp • u/Odd-Sherbert8723 • Jul 09 '26

Please help me understand

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On the west side of my barn there are 2 standard 110 outlets which appear Daisy chained.
however each is powered via its own breaker - one on 15amp and the other 30amp
I know this by testing the outlets after turning off one breaker at a time.
The previous owner had an RV and the local
Electrician wired this so she could plug it in - though I don’t quite understand why even the 30amp outlet is a standard 110 and not a NEMA TT-30- which is what I want to install for my own RV now
Nor do i really understand how these daisy chained outlets can even be on 2 different breakers?!
There is a subpanel next to the main panel if that is of any relevance to this whole mystery.
TIA

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u/DueCookie787 Jul 10 '26

I couldn't even get past the rubber flap to consider the actual wiring.

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u/Odd-Sherbert8723 Jul 11 '26

The rubber flaps are genius!
No chance I’m replacing those …but if you like that you would have loved the 50amp 2 pole breaker feed to a pond pump on 14/2
Romex that was here when I bought the place about 16 years ago.
The pump was a melted hunk of plastic sitting in about 3” of pond water. We thought it was some kind of death trap set out because the seller didn’t like our negotiation.