Plugging into the electric dryer outlet

bisgaard wrote:
It's been a while since I last asked a question on this forum & I did try to see if the topic had been covered through lots of searches, but nothing turned up.

As electric cars gain in popularity, I've noticed that Tesla & others use the traditional NEMA 14-50R socket (we usual see as our 50A service) for their charge stations. With that, there's also been a lots of 10-30P to 14-50R adapters showing up on the market (a 30A 240V pre-1996 clothes dryer to 50A RV adapter).

I'm looking to see if anyone has experience with these adapters & what lessons learned are?

... TJ

It should work just fine using the Tesla adapter altho you will not have a full 50 amp capacity on each leg. You will only have 30 amps available.
On the stick house side of the dryer outlet, both the ground and the neutral are bonded together so when the Tesla adapter is plugged in you will still have a ground and a neutral that are connected together. The 30 amp hot leads will be split to the two hot sides of the 50 amp plug and this will be fed to your main electrical panel. In your main electrical panel in your coach, at the top of your 50 amp main circuit breaker, you will have 120 volts on each input that will be out of phase with each other. IN other words 240 volts across the two inputs. All items in your coach will work fine altho you will only have 30 amps available on each side instead of 50 amps.