50 amp cheater box
I have a 50 amp 5ver someone told me about this. It has 2 30amp plugs (male) on it and a 50amp (female). So your supposed to be able to plug 1 of the 30 amp plugs into the 30 amp plug at the rv park a...
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BillyBob Jim wrote:No, most places won't be like that at all. Nobody I know of has "separate/independent 20 and 30 amp feeds to the pedestal". Most places will have 100 amp feeds to the pedestal, the 50 Amp, 30 Amp, and 20 Amp receptacles are all wired off the 100 amp feed with the appropriate circuit breaker.troubledwaters wrote:BillyBob Jim wrote:Please let me know the name and location of this place; I want to make sure I never get close to there. The place sounds like a nightmare with duct tape and baling wire-cobbled up electrical panels and probably everything else.
At the campground I am familiar with its not going to work. It will work from the standpoint that you will power up both legs of your 50 amp system, but you're not going to have more than 30 amps.
The main feed is 30 amp, the 20 amp receptacle is tapped off of that 30 amp feed. They did not run a separate/independent 20 and 30 amp feeds to the pedestal. If they would of done that they would of simply installed a 50/30/20 pedestal and if they would of, that would not mean you can somehow dog-bone 100 amps out of it.
Wonderful, don't get close to there. Just so happens to be a state park with everything duct taped and bailing wire tied together lol, wired all 30 amp pre 1980. I expect you only stay at brand new high falutin resort type places where everything is brand spanking new? You'll find the same situations at a lot of State and Fed facilities if you open your eyes.
For the RVnet code fetish club, you haven't a clue what, or what version, of a code was in effect when park A, park B, or park C's system was installed.
Popcorn a poppin.
If all you have is a 30 amp feed to the pedestal, with a both a 30 amp and 20 amp receptacle wired off that feed (reminds me of knob and tube wiring), I don't want to be there. And how many other sites are on that same 30 amp feed? You didn't even mention circuit breakers; I'm sure those must be in the pedestal however?
I hope your popcorn popper is as a the kind that you put over the stove burner, you don't have enough power to run an electric model.
Now if I could just get the name and location; it seems it would be mutually beneficial to me and you for me to have that information.
