50 Amp Plug at Home
Up until today I've always plugged my 30 amp fifth wheel to a 20 amp circuit down in my shop and it's worked ok on a heavy extension cord. Today it popped the breaker a couple of times with the heat so I started checking out options. Turns out I have 200 amp service at my house. 50 runs to the shop, 50 runs to some hot tub wiring at the back of my house that was out of service (no hot tub) and the other 100 into the house.
So I ran to lowes and spent $30 bucks on a 50 amp RV receptacle and $15 at Wally World on a 50 to 30 adapter. Again since my fifth wheel only has 30 amp service. I already had a bunch of conduit and electrical parts on hand. Two hours later and I'm in business. Normally when I do a project like this it takes a few failures before it goes thru, so this was a nice change. :B
I don't know if I'll ever buy a FW with 50 amp service but it's nice to know I'm set up for it if it does happen.
So I ran to lowes and spent $30 bucks on a 50 amp RV receptacle and $15 at Wally World on a 50 to 30 adapter. Again since my fifth wheel only has 30 amp service. I already had a bunch of conduit and electrical parts on hand. Two hours later and I'm in business. Normally when I do a project like this it takes a few failures before it goes thru, so this was a nice change. :B
I don't know if I'll ever buy a FW with 50 amp service but it's nice to know I'm set up for it if it does happen.
