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Keep your RV electrical cables safe and out of the way. This durable polypropylene design replaces your old or damaged cable hatch. 2 Housing options fit 3" or 3-1/2" cutouts, and the sliding door lets you run cable while the door is shut.
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How to Properly Measure for Cut-Out Dimension
There are two main dimensions you need to know when choosing a replacement access door or adding a new one to your RV:
The cut-out diameter is the width of the circle needed to ensure the access door mounts flush to the wall of your RV.
The mounting depth is the depth needed behind the mounting surface for the access door's hatch to properly fit.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today we're going to be taking a look at the Valterra Universal Electric Cable Hatch for RVs. This is for use with RV electrical cables up to 50 amps. The unit's going to come with 2 different housings, a small one and a large one. Just choose whatever one works best for your size cable. It's also going to come with the included installation putty tape, hardware, and foam gasket. The screw heads are going to be painted to match the color of the hatch. Then the main hatch door, I just want to point out that that's actually going to hide the mounting hardware.
That's a really nice design of the unit, so it won't be visible with the hatch door closed and with the unit fully installed. Once you have whatever housing you need . For our application today we're just going to say that we're going to use the larger one. The mount holes are going to match up perfectly. The hatch door is able to swing open for easy access. It also has a sliding door right here.
That's going to allow the cable to pass through with the main hatch door in the closed position. With that closed, it's actually going to keep unwanted items out of the stored area when the cable's not being used. When it comes to the overall dimension, no matter what housing you use, the large or the small one, the diameters are going to be the same, because that's this outer piece here. That's going to be about 5-1/8". Now, the overall depth will change a little bit. For the larger housing, that's going to give us an overall depth measurement of about 2-7/8".
With the smaller housing that's going to decrease to about 2-1/2" of overall depth. Each housing does require a cut-out at the mounting location. The larger one is going to require a cut-out of right around 3-1/2". The smaller one's going to require a cut-out of a little bit closer to 3" in diameter. The unit's going to be white in color. When it comes to the mount hole separation, we're going to have 4 mounting holes. It's all going to be the same, because we're going to be based off of the mounting holes here on the hatch door and that flange piece, and so the mount hole separation on this unit, center-on-center, we're looking at about 2-11/16".
That's going to be the same distance between each mount hole. It's a nice square pattern, or square design. Now, the hole right here of the sliding door, that's going to give us an opening of about 1" by 1". If we take a look at the larger housing, this is going to give us an opening size of about 3-1/8" with a depth of about 2-1/2". The smaller one's going to give us an opening of about 2-1/2" with a depth of about 2". That's going to do it for today's look at the Valterra Universal Electric Cable Hatch for RVs.
Customer Satisfaction Score:
99% were satisfied with this product
1% of customers were not satisfied
Ratings & Reviews
Micheal
10/12/2025
Just got this installed worked great the 2 weeks I had it in use
Micheal
10/12/2025
Worked flawlessly upgraded to a 50 amp service and had to use a different receptacle
Gene
11/24/2021
Cover departed on the last trip. Head winds were really strong. Also lost a marker lens missing.
Sierra K.
8/16/2021
Thank you for the review. We unfortunately do not have any access doors with 3 openings.
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Laura P.
9/21/2020
Its been a year or so since I installed this. As I wrote in the first review, the hinge did eventually break off, so now its a pop off cover instead of a hinged cover, but otherwise has still served the purpose.