30 amp adapter- newbie here
Hi All; Just picked up a fiver and planning a shakedown stay in the driveway. Our first trip will be to our property that has an unlivable house. It has a conveniently located dryer outlet. Is there ...
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spud1957 wrote:laknox wrote:spud1957 wrote:Water-Bug wrote:ScottG wrote:
Assuming replacing the wiring isn't too hard, your really safer just having a 50A outlet supplied because that is a standard range receptacle and electricians are more familiar with them. Then you can use an adapter for 30A or if you have a 50A rig (I'm not clear which you have) you can plug directly into it and have much more power available.
A little clarification is needed here. Older three prong appliance recepticle ARE NOT compatible with RVs and the existing wireing does not have a neutral, which is necessary for an RV.
Could you clarify "does not have a neutral"? Maybe an image of a 3 prong appliance dryer plug that doesn't have a neutral? I'm a little confused (easily).
SOME dryers have/had 3-prong plugs and needed 3-prong receps. I just went through this about 2 months ago, in that we moved a dryer into my step-daughter's trailer that had a 3-prong pigtail, but there was a 4-prong recep, so we had to change the pigtail on the dryer. I lost my last 5/16" 1/4 socket down the back of the dryer. GRRRR!
Lyle
I understand the theory of a 3 prong plug. My question is a 3 prong plug that doesn't have a neutral.
Some older 220VAC three prong appliance recepticals have two hot pins and a ground pin.
