50 to 30 to 15 amps

I have been running off a 120 outlet using my 50amp cord for 5 years and ran my other rvs for 20 years the same way put either a 30amp cord to 120.
I finally tapped into my panel and ran a 50 to the rv. I gab a breaker laying around went to Home Depot and picked up some wire and a box.

Got to carry the various adapters with you on the camping trips... Many of trips with my 30A shore power cable I find the pedestal has burn and melted parts on it so no way will I plug into that. I will use the 50A to 30A adapter and plug my popup into that... It is safe to do as it only taps into one side of the hot wires... I also carry a HD regular extension cord and like to also plug into the pedestal 20A service to run my space heater or things on the outside when needed...

I call these PLAN-B items...

What you saw at a camp store might be the way that person is storing them too... Just plug them all together to keep track of them...

I don't care much for the small plastic adapters you see a lot of - they would always get hot for me when being used. I like the dog bone long cord type of adapters...

I also always have a multimeter along on my my trips and like to walk around the 30A and 50A pedestals and make sure they have the correct AC Voltages where it should be...

A good place to look at these thing is NOSHOCKZONE on-line... Lots of good info there...

50A Side


30A Side


Be very careful wiring up your house for the 30A and 50A pedestal connections. They are slightly different than regular house wiring... A mistake here will get very expensive for you when you first plug in... Lots of blue smoke...

Even when you have a professional do it can be dangerous. They too should be mindful this is for an RV Circuit. The savings grace with using professional electricians is they have Insurance to cover the blue smoke mistakes. If you do it yourself guess who pays for all of that haha...

Just saying...

Roy Ken

That's why they make those various adapters. It's perfectly fine to use them. However, I would not recommend adding any additional standard extension cords when using 15/20 amp circuit. If you do need to run longer to reach a plug keep the extension cord as large as possible (30 amp extension cord if possible) or us a heavy duty cord that is as short as possible.
You just have to be aware of what is and what is not running in the RV. There are a number of parasitic loads so a bit of experimenting might be necessary. I have plugged my Prevost bus conversion into a 15 amp circuit to keep the residential fridge running. I just have to turn most everything else off.

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my rv sits in a bldg plugged into a 20amp 120v outlet . I can run everything but not all at one time, no problem. I use the pig tail 30amp to 120v plug