electrical question

Lynnmor wrote:


Thank you for that, we need yet another comment from folks that don't understand. Having seen first hand the poor materials and workmanship in RV wiring, just keep on believing in and recommending half wit practices. If one knows for SURE that all wiring from the cord plug to the inside main breaker is 100% good and protected, then the 50 amp adapter is somewhat safe. Going on a public forum and suggesting this is 100% safe to folks that have no clue is irresponsible. Of course electricity is a mystery to me, I have only done 100% of the wiring when I built my home, machine shop and out buildings.

Good for you Lynnmor. You're not the only one who's played sparkey, it's satisfying knowing one can do their own work.
If you understand electricity, the exact same potential is there for a live short even with a lower amp source. Ever smoked a household plug?
By this logic, your home, machine shop and outbuildings should have a plethora of 15-20A "services" and the distribution lines to the services should be a larger plethora of 15-20A services from the substation to each house with it's slew of 15 A services. Where do you stop it and rely on the safeguards (breakers and fuses) to increase the efficiency of electricity transmission?

And to your point, YOU may know that the wiring in your house is 100% right (or not, unless you've never made a mistake before), but I can assure you that there are just as many "mistakes" in residential wiring or more than in RVs which are fabricated in a far more controlled atmosphere. Our current home and a couple others in the past are prime examples of it. Like my side shop that has 1 circuit off the sub panel run to it for a couple lights, and couple outlets. It randomly, once every couple years, loses power for a few hours or a few days. Through trouble shooting and visual inspection of the 90% of the wire that's exposed, there's no issue, no switch leg ran to an obscure switch somewhere, nada. It is the same phenomena as the coach lights at the top of the driveway that for the first several years after we moved in, only worked through the summer months. Now they work year round, without fail for the last couple years. I presumed there was a short underground (direct bury) somewhere that presented itself once the rainy season hit here. That theory is now largely de-bunked.
Your insistence on the subject as it pertains to these posts is the same type of paranoia (for lack of a better word, maybe lack of understanding would be better, but you claim to be knowledgeable...) that is so rampant with a select number of members here.