replace transfer switch with 50amp plug?
I have a friend who's on some hard times and living in an older HR pusher in a park. It sounds like his transfer switch has croaked. For a while he would lose power from the pole and it would on...
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larry cad wrote:Bumpyroad wrote:
I thought transfer switches were all "automatic"? the other option is just to move the plug to a different outlet mechanically and is not a transfer switch.
bumpy
No, not true. My son's first motorhome had a manual transfer switch. It had a knob mounted on the outside of the box that you could use to switch between shore and genny power.
Very often transfer switches for backup generators for houses are also manual. It's a normal-ish switch; you flip it in one direction for utility power, and the other direction for generator power, and sometimes there might be a setting in the middle for no power.
For whatever reason, manual transfer switches are not at all common in (modern) RVs.
