50 amp cheater box
I have a 50 amp 5ver someone told me about this. It has 2 30amp plugs (male) on it and a 50amp (female). So your supposed to be able to plug 1 of the 30 amp plugs into the 30 amp plug at the rv park a...
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BillyBob Jim wrote:Please let me know the name and location of this place; I want to make sure I never get close to there. The place sounds like a nightmare with duct tape and baling wire-cobbled up electrical panels and probably everything else.
At the campground I am familiar with its not going to work. It will work from the standpoint that you will power up both legs of your 50 amp system, but you're not going to have more than 30 amps.
The main feed is 30 amp, the 20 amp receptacle is tapped off of that 30 amp feed. They did not run a separate/independent 20 and 30 amp feeds to the pedestal. If they would of done that they would of simply installed a 50/30/20 pedestal and if they would of, that would not mean you can somehow dog-bone 100 amps out of it.
