Hi All: My camper has 30amp service. The dealer gave me a adapter so that I can plug the 30amp into a one side and plug a 110 extension cord into the other side and then plug the extension cord into a standard household 110 plug in the house. The extension cord needs to be about 80 feet long to reach the household plug. All cords are three prong. The extension cord is a heavy cord approved for outside use. Question; Is this safe for the camper and the household circuits.The plan is to run the refrig. to cool it down. I was told not to run the A/C or any other appliances. Thanks. Jim2007

Jim, I can ONLY speak for myself on this. We frequently have our 31' TT plugged into shore power at home using a 110 plug. I too have purchased a high quality extension cord. I run the fridge, lights, TV and air conditioner without ever having had a problem. I'm plugged into a 3 prong extension in the garage. Maybe I got lucky and found the right plug - maybe our house is really well wired (probably is). Earlier this year DW and me were studying for different state examination tests for work (Doc and Teacher). We each spent a week camped out 12 hours a day in the rig. No problems. But that's my experience.

At 80 FEET.....(even with a 12 gauge extension cord ).....I would not even consider turning on the air conditioner !!!!!!!(unless you want to chance burning out the motor..due to low voltage)..power loss at longer runs.you should be just fine just running the fridge to get it going and the converter for lights and things like that -----but at 80 ft..... reducing the 30 amp down into basically a 15 amp outlet you're going to heat up the court and melt the adapter or the cord if you try running a heavy load at 80 foot !!!!!the other person probably had a short length of cord and was lucky ----but at 80 feet there's no way unless you basically do about a 8 or 10 gauge and wired directly to panel You'll be fine just running the fridge and maybe a couple lights maybe the TV ---------no microwave no coffee maker no toaster toaster oven----- anything big at 80 FEET.

Works great for me. I have two trailers in my back yard hooked to my garage on separate 20AMP circuits. I have the 10-gauge (10-3) contractor type 50-foot extension cords. I use the RV30A-15A long DOG BONE TYPE Adapter (WALMART).Hope your Adapter looks like this as the small round adapters may burn up your shore power cable.DO NOT use these small round type adaptersWe also have one of these RV120VAC PLUG-IN VOLTMETERs plugged into a good spot in the trailer where we can get a good glimpse of it. This has the SAFE ZONE printed in GREEN. If the AC VOLTAGE is outside of the GREEN AREA we will not turn on any of the high wattage appliances.Once you get hooked up be sure to feel the connections to make sure that they are not getting hot.We run anything in our trailer including the Air Conditioner. The problem is since we only have 15A/20A service if we have two high wattage appliances on at the same time it will trip the house breaker.If your extension is not a 10-gauge or 12-gauge you can NOT run the high wattage items. The cheaper RED extension cords from WALMART are usually 14-16 gauge and they should not be used.We carry this setup with us on all our trips. You never know when you might need to get hooked up to something less than 30A. When we visit the kids at their house we hook ours up to sleep in the trailer in their driveway...Roy Ken

No for aircondition but refrigerator should be fine.The best way is to transfer it items to freezers after running the refrigerator with chilled pop in it for about 3 to 4 hours before loading other items.Unless it is very hot out we just load ours when going to storage and turn it on then. No problems when doing that in the last 20 years in 3 different RV's.

Jim2007 wrote:Hi All: My camper has 30amp service. The dealer gave me a adapter so that I can plug the 30amp into a one side and plug a 110 extension cord into the other side and then plug the extension cord into a standard household 110 plug in the house. The extension cord needs to be about 80 feet long to reach the household plug. All cords are three prong. The extension cord is a heavy cord approved for outside use. Question; Is this safe for the camper and the household circuits.The plan is to run the refrig. to cool it down. I was told not to run the A/C or any other appliances. Thanks. Jim2007Something is not right here. 30 amp service is 110 volt. Your house receptacle is 15-20 amp 110 volt, also. Am I misunderstanding? Did the dealer add a separate 110 circuit? That is the only way you can plug in 2 separate 110 volt sources. The factory setup would likely have been a single 30 amp, 110 volt line in to a breaker panel with a couple of lines out of the internal electric panel to run items and receptacles.Usually the 15 amp on the PS of the MH is to run small items outside, such as lights or bug zapper. It is not usually setup as a second input line.

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bfast54
Explorer
May 25, 2015
At 80 FEET.....(even with a 12 gauge extension cord ).....I would not even consider turning on the air conditioner !!!!!!!(unless you want to chance burning out the motor..due to low voltage)..power loss at longer runs.

you should be just fine just running the fridge to get it going and the converter for lights and things like that -----but at 80 ft..... reducing the 30 amp down into basically a 15 amp outlet you're going to heat up the court and melt the adapter or the cord if you try running a heavy load at 80 foot !!!!!

the other person probably had a short length of cord and was lucky ----but at 80 feet there's no way unless you basically do about a 8 or 10 gauge and wired directly to panel

You'll be fine just running the fridge and maybe a couple lights maybe the TV ---------no microwave no coffee maker no toaster toaster oven----- anything big at 80 FEET.
dvitale300
Explorer
May 25, 2015
Jim, I can ONLY speak for myself on this. We frequently have our 31' TT plugged into shore power at home using a 110 plug. I too have purchased a high quality extension cord. I run the fridge, lights, TV and air conditioner without ever having had a problem. I'm plugged into a 3 prong extension in the garage. Maybe I got lucky and found the right plug - maybe our house is really well wired (probably is). Earlier this year DW and me were studying for different state examination tests for work (Doc and Teacher). We each spent a week camped out 12 hours a day in the rig. No problems. But that's my experience.

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