replace transfer switch with 50amp plug?

hertfordnc wrote:
I have a friend who's on some hard times and living in an older HR pusher in a park.

It sounds like his transfer switch has croaked. For a while he would lose power from the pole and it would only run on generator.

Then it stopped getting power from either source.

He really does not have $150-200 for a new switch.

My suggestion is that he wire it the way my much older coach is wired,

The AC cord goes to the breaker panel. The generator goes to a female 30 amp plug. Instead of a transfer switch i plug the RV cord into the plug to operate from the generator.

I am a fair electrician but i have not been out ot see just what htis would entail

Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated.


thanks

I might not being reading the plan right but here's what I would do.

What you want is a male plug that is wired to the coach AC breaker panel and them female plugs on the shore power cord and the cable coming from the generator. To switch the owner will need to unplug one and plug in the other. This will completely eliminate the slightest potential of bring the generator on line in parallel with shore power which won't end well for the coach owner. Also you want to avoid any potential of the blades of a male plug being energized when exposed.

And I feel your furlough pain. I work for the Coast Guard.