adding second shore power receptacle
Hi, I have a Keystone Cougar 293SAB. The shore power cord is at the back of the trailer. When I travel with a generator, it sits in the back of the F350 close to the cab. Each time I want to use th...
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I'm glad several here has brought up the hazard involved having some HOT male plugs laying around.
I am mounting an outside 20AMP connection on my POPUP setup being fed by the 1500WATT PSW Inverter. This is next to the shore power cable where I can use a standard RV30A-20A adapter to connect my inverter into the electrical system.
You might adapt something like that to your setup to use to get an extension 30A cable back to the generator side... i.e if your shore power cable is an connection type then just use a RV Adapter to plug that into another outside wall connection and run the other end to a connection near the front of the trailer so you can connect up to the generator?? Would not have any hot power sources laying around doing it this way. "poor mans transfer switch"
This sort of gives you the idea here... The bottom center flip lid connection is my main shore power 30A connection on my off-road POPUP trailer and you can see all of available power sources all use it. The flip lid on the bottom right comes from my 1500WATT INVERTER so when I want to power up the trailer from it I just use a short RV30A-15A adapter as shown..
In your case you would install flip lid 30A connectors on your trailer one near the shore power flip lid connector and the other end near the front of the trailer into another flip lid connector. All of this wiring between the two flip lid 30A connectors would be inside your trailer. Then you could run a short 30A cable run from the front of the trailer to the generator when you needed it...
Just a thought
Roy Ken
I am mounting an outside 20AMP connection on my POPUP setup being fed by the 1500WATT PSW Inverter. This is next to the shore power cable where I can use a standard RV30A-20A adapter to connect my inverter into the electrical system.
You might adapt something like that to your setup to use to get an extension 30A cable back to the generator side... i.e if your shore power cable is an connection type then just use a RV Adapter to plug that into another outside wall connection and run the other end to a connection near the front of the trailer so you can connect up to the generator?? Would not have any hot power sources laying around doing it this way. "poor mans transfer switch"
This sort of gives you the idea here... The bottom center flip lid connection is my main shore power 30A connection on my off-road POPUP trailer and you can see all of available power sources all use it. The flip lid on the bottom right comes from my 1500WATT INVERTER so when I want to power up the trailer from it I just use a short RV30A-15A adapter as shown..
In your case you would install flip lid 30A connectors on your trailer one near the shore power flip lid connector and the other end near the front of the trailer into another flip lid connector. All of this wiring between the two flip lid 30A connectors would be inside your trailer. Then you could run a short 30A cable run from the front of the trailer to the generator when you needed it...
Just a thought
Roy Ken
