15 and 30 AMP "Y" Adapter to 50 AMP
How to make it work on a GFI outlet?
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mkirsch wrote:
Why does a Y adapter trip the park's GFCI circuit?
Later this year I am going to an event where the site is VERY crowded, and all the 30 and 20 amp sockets are certain to be in use. The 50 Amp sockets go largely unused.
I have purchased a 50 Amp to 2x30 Amp Y adapter in anticipation of this, so that I and a neighbor can share a single 50 Amp outlet.
If this isn't going to work I am not going to be happy, as the adapter was not cheap and it's too late to return it.
This direction works great. It is the one that hooks a 50amp trailer to a 30 amp plus a 20 amp GFI that does not work.
A GFI measures the current on the hot and neutral and compares them. If there is the slightest difference it trips. With an adaptor there are two neutrals so there will be a difference and it trips.
