30 to 50 amp adapter
30 amp motor home plug has one hot leg, one neutral and a ground. A 50 amp plug has 4, 2 hot legs, a neutral and a ground. When you have a dog bone style adapter, 30 at the pedestal to the 50 amp ...
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This is how the RV PEDESTALS are wired up and being used...
Granted if you tie those two HOTS together from the SHORE POWER SIDE SOURCE it would be bad...
However tieing the two hots together feeding the RV 120VAC Distribution PANEL from a 30A single phase source is not going to do any harm... The 30A side at the pedestal only has ONE LEAD HOT... You are just sending this same hot lead to two locations. If you are using an applicance that is wired for 220VAC then the 30A-50A RV adapter will not work for that one appliance. It is only sending 120VAC to the RV Distribution Panel.
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Roy Ken
Granted if you tie those two HOTS together from the SHORE POWER SIDE SOURCE it would be bad...
However tieing the two hots together feeding the RV 120VAC Distribution PANEL from a 30A single phase source is not going to do any harm... The 30A side at the pedestal only has ONE LEAD HOT... You are just sending this same hot lead to two locations. If you are using an applicance that is wired for 220VAC then the 30A-50A RV adapter will not work for that one appliance. It is only sending 120VAC to the RV Distribution Panel.
Read up DMBRUSS Electrical adapters on-line
DMBRUSS RV ADAPTERS ARTICLES
Roy Ken
