Melting extension cord
I will be taking our first big trip soon and we will need the air conditioner. We usually boondock and never use the AC. I have only used it at home a couple of times and when I did the extension cord...
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Sam Spade wrote:DrewE wrote:
A standard electric dryer outlet is not a 50A outlet, but a 30A outlet. If you're meaning a 30A RV to 50A RV adapter, it will not fit in a dryer outlet.
Oops. Brain cramp.
Haven't I seen "standard" adapters that have a 30 A male dryer plug on one end and a 30 A female RV plug on the other ??
Or maybe it was the 4-wire electric range type of plug ??
I would encourage 99 percent of the RV'ers out there to NOT make their own adapter for something like this; too many chances for a REALLY BAD outcome.
I haven't personally come across any dryer outlet adapters pre-made, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist. It would be a fairly straightforward thing to do (and perfectly safe and reasonable with a 4 wire dryer connection), and since having dryers in garages is not all that uncommon it seems like there would be somewhat of a market for such a thing. You could have two 30A RV's per dryer outlet without problems, save for the slight inconvenience of having both lose power if one overloads their side of the circuit.
A four wire 50A (range) plug to one or two 30A RV sockets is, of course, a very common adapter, since the 50A range plug and socket are identical in configuration to 50A RV plugs and sockets.
