Add electric outlet

[ruddie66]

I have a 5ver with a slide out that has a outlet on the outside for the tv and what ever else that one would need to access power. I would like to install a outlet on the inside wall of the slide out by tapping into the outside outlet. Wondering if any one else has done this and how ? Thanks for any suggestions.

[cavie]

Originally Posted by ruddie66

I have a 5ver with a slide out that has a outlet on the outside for the tv and what ever else that one would need to access power. I would like to install a outlet on the inside wall of the slide out by tapping into the outside outlet. Wondering if any one else has done this and how ? Thanks for any suggestions.

Yes it can be done. It will be on the GFI circuit. Since you don't know how then I suggest some hands on help.

[ependydad]

I’ve added outlets on interior walls but never exterior ones. For interior walls, you pull the old outlet out. Get a “old work shallow gang box”. Wire the new outlet in and bring wires off of it. Wire in the new outlet into its own old work shallow gang box. Before I attached my first time doing this, I read a few webpages on outlet wiring and watched a few YouTube videos.



NOW, the kicker I’m all of this is that you’re doing it on an exterior wall. That wall will be made of foam in the middle. I don’t know how the gang boxes would work there.

[D W]

Originally Posted by cavie

Yes it can be done. It will be on the GFI circuit. Since you don't know how then I suggest some hands on help.

X2, but do your homework and figure out your loads on that branch circuit. You didn't specify what you want to power from that outlet, but remember you're limited to 15 amps on that circuit.

Just sayin'.

[Bama Rambler]

Your RV looks to be stick and tin (aluminum sided), so adding an outlet, even in a slide wall, shouldn't be much of a problem. Just be sure to offset the two preferably in the same cavity between the studs.