Has anyone ever used a 45 AMP adapter?
I usually require a 50 amp outlet to power my coach but sometimes, all I can get is 30 amps. A year ago I saw this nifty 50 amp adapter that had two ends, a 30 amp male plus a 15 amp mail leading...
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RoyB wrote:
IVYLOG - guess you are correct with no LIVE male plugs. Each of those two plugs go to either side of the 50AMP zones and not tied together...
Schematic would look something like this one from DMBRUSS
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The 30A and 20A Male plug to 50A Female socket adapter is probably wired the same way.
I think it is illegal for companies to sell the adapters that could have live open male plugs...
Roy Ken
The main ways you could get a live male plug would be to have a 240V device (in which case current can "leak" through the device from one hot to the other), or to have one side plugged into a miswired outlet (hot and neutral swapped, or neutral open) in which case the neutral of the other plug could be hot.
If you don't have any 240V appliances, which is the vast majority of RVs, and you never plug into miswired outlets and your RV wiring is correct, you would not get a hot male plug from the adapter.
