transfer switch 50 amp

billyboy wrote:

wolfe10 wrote:
Start by verifying that your adapter's female end (30 male to 50 female) DOES have 120 VAC between each outer straight and the center straight and center round. Zero center round to center straight.

Let us know what you find.

But I am not using any adapters, I am just plugging in with the heavy 50 amp power cord

Sorry. The first sentence of your first post had me fooled: "just wondering if anyone has seen a problem coming from the transfer switch when on 30 amps..."

time2roll wrote:
+1 for bad adapter or some other loose connection.

Of course it would also be prudent to check the GFCI outlet is not tripped.

Ok, I am not getting any currant to either gfi box at all, with the boxes out of the wall to look for current.

Cydog15 wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
A Learning Moment For Mex...

With 240/50 rigs, is it a universal practice to enable all and everything but additional roof air conditioners when running on a single 120 vac leg? How is the shed of A/C power accomplished?

Thank You

Bestconverter has a Automatic load shed

The winne adventurer has a built in load shedding device built in, but I'm not using too much power to have to shed amp draw.

wolfe10 wrote:
Start by verifying that your adapter's female end (30 male to 50 female) DOES have 120 VAC between each outer straight and the center straight and center round. Zero center round to center straight.

Let us know what you find.

But I am not using any adapters, I am just plugging in with the heavy 50 amp power cord

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
A Learning Moment For Mex...

With 240/50 rigs, is it a universal practice to enable all and everything but additional roof air conditioners when running on a single 120 vac leg? How is the shed of A/C power accomplished?

Thank You

Some explanation here:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intellitec-50-Amp-smart-EMS-energy-management-system-upgrade-kit-model-760

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
A Learning Moment For Mex...

With 240/50 rigs, is it a universal practice to enable all and everything but additional roof air conditioners when running on a single 120 vac leg? How is the shed of A/C power accomplished?

Thank You

Bestconverter has a Automatic load shed

Not with the switch, But several have with the adapters... Sometimes they fail to feed both legs.

+1 for bad adapter or some other loose connection.

Of course it would also be prudent to check the GFCI outlet is not tripped.

Start by verifying that your adapter's female end (30 male to 50 female) DOES have 120 VAC between each outer straight and the center straight and center round. Zero center round to center straight.

Let us know what you find.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
A Learning Moment For Mex...

With 240/50 rigs, is it a universal practice to enable all and everything but additional roof air conditioners when running on a single 120 vac leg? How is the shed of A/C power accomplished?

Thank You

The typical practice, as I understand it, among less fancy units is to leave load management entirely up to the user. The adapter (or 30A cord) just applies the single 120V hot to both legs of the main breaker, so every circuit has power. (Obviously any actual 240V circuits would not operate, but they are quite rare. I guess some clothes dryers used in RVs are 240V, but that's about it. Many 50A RV load centers can't accommodate 240V branch circuits at all.)

Fancier coaches with a full-fledged EMS use various load shedding setups, the details being I suppose mostly at the whim of the manufacturer.