Adding Another Shore Power Input
I mounted my generator on the rear rack of my 5'r and it worked great during our trip to the NoCal Coast last week. Just run the cables on the ground, hook 'em up and start the Genny. I was think...
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I think you could successfully add a second input cord without too much difficulty. All you would need is access to the spot where your current cord actually attaches to the camper wiring. Then, simply attach a second wire at the junction box and run the second cord out a new port you could install near your generator position. What am I talking about?
Here's a photo from my TT. The original 30 foot cord is attached to the trailer wiring inside that silver colored junction box. I simply cut the original cord (I never unhooked it from junction box), and make it about 2 feet long and then attached the male plug. Attached to the mail plug is my portable surge protector with the other end of the surge protector outside the port.
Using this as an example, you could simply attach a second cord with a plug to (your) similar junction point and shove it out.
However, you'll need to do some modifications because the plugs on the trailer side are male. If you have power running thorugh one cord, you'll have power in the other cord (regardless if on shore power or generator power). The bare pins on the plug will be live with 110 volts of AC elictricity! So although the idea is good, if you can figure out a way to switch out both plugs you'll be using (on the camper end) so they can end up being female instead of male, it would work.
As the poster above suggested, attaching a receptacle on the back of the camper, near the generator, would work, but remember, you'd still have the back-feed to the shore power plug with the male end. The other answer would be to install a cut-off switch for each leg (or both wires), so there would be no back feed to the other plug and only one active at a time.
Here's a photo from my TT. The original 30 foot cord is attached to the trailer wiring inside that silver colored junction box. I simply cut the original cord (I never unhooked it from junction box), and make it about 2 feet long and then attached the male plug. Attached to the mail plug is my portable surge protector with the other end of the surge protector outside the port.
Using this as an example, you could simply attach a second cord with a plug to (your) similar junction point and shove it out.
However, you'll need to do some modifications because the plugs on the trailer side are male. If you have power running thorugh one cord, you'll have power in the other cord (regardless if on shore power or generator power). The bare pins on the plug will be live with 110 volts of AC elictricity! So although the idea is good, if you can figure out a way to switch out both plugs you'll be using (on the camper end) so they can end up being female instead of male, it would work.
As the poster above suggested, attaching a receptacle on the back of the camper, near the generator, would work, but remember, you'd still have the back-feed to the shore power plug with the male end. The other answer would be to install a cut-off switch for each leg (or both wires), so there would be no back feed to the other plug and only one active at a time.
