Adding a 15/20A external connector

'tiredTeacher wrote:
Has anyone added a connector similar to the marine-style 30A that comes on a trailer?
My Sunline had a built-in power cord that stowed under the sofa and was accessible by lifting the sofa seat. I stored an extension cord there to run out the mouse hole, along with the 30A cord, to supply power to my space heater.
My Rockwood has a separate power cord and no mouse hole to provide a way to route my extension cord into the trailer.
I don't want to: 1) Prop a storage door open and run the cord through a storage bay, allowing cold air and critters in or 2) Put a cord past a seal on the slide.
I suppose I could install a regular-sized mouse hole somewhere, but that seems like an awfully big hople to drill for one, small extension cord.
Any ideas?

Teach

I added a second 30A service to my trailer which is completely independent of the OEM electrical system which feeds two dedicated 15A duplex outlets each protected by a 15A CB located in a new load center I installed in my rear pass thru compartment. This load center is feed by a short 30A cord that I ran up thru the floor in the rear pass thru and simply have it secured up to the floor of the trailer on the outside rear that I plug into a second 30A cord. Both his second 30A service and the original factory 30A cord are fed by a 50A to dual 30A dogbone that I custom made. Details of what I did, parts, costs and where I got the parts (all from Lowes/HD except for the new 30A plug used on the cord to the new load center) are in the captions to the pictures in that album ... CLICKY

This solved all my electrical issues except for in the summer I still can't run my A/C, microwave and WH on electric at the same time since those are all connected to the original factory 30A service so I can only run 2 or the 3 at once. In the winter that issue goes away since I only run the A/C on fan. This is really a non issue anyway since I can reach all the controls for all three of these from the same location in my trailer. I usually just turn the WH off electric when I use the microwave and this is only for like a couple of minutes at any one time ... we don't cook in the microwave and only use it to heat up things.

This system also eliminates any extra extension cords running inside the trailer.

In fact before I added my second service I had run two 15A extensions (one from the outside shower cubby to under the bathroom sink and another from the back bedroom out thru the rear pass thru and down thru the floor to the rear outside of the trailer) which are still there, but never used now so I actually have now 75/80 to almost 100A combined electrial service entrances limited only by the types and number of outlets available on the pedestal.

Larry