50 amp at 30 amp pedestal ?

Ahhh. Another bunkhouse.

wbwood wrote:
CecilT, what TT you looking at?

Keystone Outback 323BH

CecilT, what TT you looking at?

Motorcycle Jack is correct.

That, or the other way is to get a dogbone adapter with the locking ring that goes into the trailer 50amp shorepower plug & takes a 50 amp or 30 amp extension cable.

There are many ways to skin this cat.

Old-Biscuit wrote:

MitchF150 wrote:
If you are plugged into a 30a you won't be able to use both AC's at the same time. For the 50a setup, each AC unit is wired to a separate leg of the 50a plug. For the 30a, you only have one hot leg, thus one AC with power to it...

Mitch

If you plug the 30A in and then test each hot on the 50A end, both will have voltage.

30A to 50A adapter feeds both hots on the 50A.

Trying to run both A/C's at same time is a problem due to only having 30 amps total available

My mistake... My dad has 50a on his rig and when he plugs into 50a, he blows the system, with 240v going thru it... It's mucked up on the 50a side for sure, but when he uses the adapter to plug into 30a, it's fine.

I first thought that was because the other leg was not hot... Thinking about it more now, the 30a is only 120v no matter what, so both legs can be hot with 120v as stated...

Dad just does not use 50a anymore... He's had it checked out, but no one has been able to resolve it and he does not need 50a anyway...

Thanks for the clarification.

Mitch

JEBar, I liek that idea, just added another project to my list.

Oops! I grabbed the wrong pic.

sljkansas wrote:
The cheater box SDcampoweroperator is talking about will work UNLESS you plug into a 20 amp GFCI breaker (which most campgrounds I've been in have)

we have and use a cheater box, the GFCI info is dead on .... we also created a separate 20 amp circuit in our camper .... to do so, we installed a boat type (weather proof) male plug in a compartment in the camper .... a wire runs from it inside the camper to a single 20 amp breaker box .... the wire coming out of that box is connected to 3 standard wall outlets .... one is right beside the OEM plug for the water heater, one in the bathroom cabinet and one in the living area .... that way when on 30 amp service we can run the water heater and a couple of other appliances on a separate source of current .... that has worked well for us

Jim

Thanks for all the replies. So it appears I can use the dogbone to take my 50 amp to 30 amp when at a 30amp only pedestal and the only issue would be I could only run 1 AC not 2(if I even install a second AC). All else will work fine?

Second, I have a 30 amp surge protector. Could I plug this into the pedestal, then the dog bone then my 50 amp cord? I would buy a dedicated 50amp one as well. tks

with a decent EMS on my chieftain I could run two ACs on 30 amp service. things would automatically shed if usage got too high.
bumpy