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Nutinelse2do
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Jan 11, 2014

Special Adapter

Hi. looking for help.

Without going into a lot of detail, looking for suggestions on the following.

I need a 30 amp MALE to 50 amp MALE pigtail.

I have scoured the internet and cannot find a ready made one.

If anyone has such an animal, please tell me where you found it.

If you have made one, or know how to, please let me know.

Thanks so much in advance.

Richard
  • Old-Biscuit wrote:
    Just because you use 'Nutinelse2do' as your handle doesn't mean you need to come up with ideas that are bad :B

    There is a reason you can't find that 'special adapter'.

    Go ahead and 'get into the details'......might have already been done and via a safe way.
    We'll keep it a secret :B



    Lol. Thank you gentlemen. Understood, if its hot. DH wanted me to post this so he will tell you what he is looking for shortly. I think this is my fault because we are trying to get rid of the big anaconda cord, and I dont want this adapter we have sticking out 6" into the bay storage. Please hold all the cute responses till then :-)
  • beemerphile1 wrote:
    You won't find one and its nick name is a dead man's cord. It is not something you want to use.

    Explain what you want to do and someone probably can tell you how to do it safely.


    Exactly so!

    Plug one end of that into a hot outlet and the other end is perfectly primed to kill somebody. No manufacturer in his right mind is going to even offer to make something like that. He'd be sued into oblivion within minutes.
  • Very dangerous adapter. The use of adapters like this have been suggested to power a home from a RV. But illegal, dangerous to you and dangerous to linemen.
  • Just because you use 'Nutinelse2do' as your handle doesn't mean you need to come up with ideas that are bad :B

    There is a reason you can't find that 'special adapter'.

    Go ahead and 'get into the details'......might have already been done and via a safe way.
    We'll keep it a secret :B
  • You won't find one and its nick name is a dead man's cord. It is not something you want to use.

    Explain what you want to do and someone probably can tell you how to do it safely.
  • You can't find one ready made
    Nobody will MFG one, if plugged into a 50 amp outlet it would be a dead short between the two hot legs

    If plugged into a 30 amp service it would make the 50 amp male electrically HOT AND DANGEROUS

    You will have to make it
    I suggest you rethink this whole idea , and change the wiring that you intend to use it with, instead of making something so dangerous

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