50 amp RV wiring
When we are on a 30 amp plug we can not run fireplace heater and make a coffee at same time. If we can hook up to 50 amp will that help. Do the two hots of a 50 amp hook up feed two different circuits...
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DougE wrote:
If you want to plug your 50 amp trailer plug into a pedestal that has only a 30 amp and a 20 amp outlet you can use this.
These sorts of adapters give me the heebie-jeebies. Especially if there's a fault in the wiring of one or the other outlet you plug it into you can have bad things happening. If one outlet has hot and neutral reversed (a problem, to be sure), this would cause a dead short the moment it's plugged in, hopefully tripping the breaker. If one of the neutrals has poor contact, the other neutral can be significantly overloaded--particularly if it's the 30A neutral that is bad, as you could have up to 45 or 50A flowing through the 12 or 14 gauge neutral on the 15 amp socket, which is a significant overload. In that particular case, the breakers offer no protection.
As was already said, this will cause a GFCI to trip, and GFCIs are required on 20A outdoor outlets in the current electric code (and have been for awhile), so it's pretty rare to find places where it actually works at all.
