Best way to deal with 50A cable with a TT

[JoeTampa]

Having now upgraded to a TT with 50A service, I'm stuck for a easy way to deal with the cable. Right now I coil it into a plastic tote and leave it just inside the door (the pass though is full), but I imagine that there has to be an easier way.

Anyone have any creative suggestions?

[JWRoberts]

I put a metal tool box on the back bumper of my TT and put it and other items there.

[bupster]

Fire Instructor wrote:
My solution is a cord reel.

X2 but I just made my own.

[Fire_Instructor]

My solution is a cord reel.

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

🙂 Hi, rolling up my 30 Amp cord is very difficult when camping in cold weather; I can't imagine doing it with a 50 Amp cord. I just put my cord inside of my trailer and hopefully it will soften from warmth so I can eventually roll it up properly.

[RavensFan24]

Leaving it inside the door seems like a fine solution if you're going straight to your destination, since you'll be plugging in when you get there anyway as one of the first steps of setting up. If you'll make stops and/or have a need to go inside the trailer while traveling, I can see how that being in the way could be a pain. I'd just throw it on the floor at the foot of the bed if I didn't like it in the doorway. Mine just stays in the pass thru.

They make a handle with a strap you can wrap around the cord for easier moving of the cable, if you want to be able to toss it where ever is convenient without worrying about it unraveling.

[Ranger431]

I have a small pass through on the side of my TT, under the "U" shaped dinette that both my 50 amp cord and extension cord go, along with all of the other "set up stuff" like water connections and hoses, CATV, etc go. I am pretty lucky in the mine coils relatively easily. I use a "cord keeper" on each side of both of the cords to hold them in the coil and that's about it.

[IDoMyOwnStunts]

Too bad they don't make these for RVs.

[Old-Biscuit]

3oaks wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
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I would re-evaluate the evaluation and off load some of that not needed items.

We FTd for 7 yrs and I was always amazed at the stuff weekenders/vacationers piled into their RVs.
They would start unload and unloading and unloading .like a circus clown car it just never ended

As for that anaconda cord...mine went into a 5 gallon and then into the back of truck bed.

Everyone is different and some families require more "stuff" than others. What appears to be non-essential to some is a necessity to others. :@

Go Full Time and you find out LESS is MORE

[3oaks]

Old-Biscuit wrote:
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I would re-evaluate the evaluation and off load some of that not needed items.

We FTd for 7 yrs and I was always amazed at the stuff weekenders/vacationers piled into their RVs.
They would start unload and unloading and unloading .like a circus clown car it just never ended

As for that anaconda cord...mine went into a 5 gallon and then into the back of truck bed.

Everyone is different and some families require more "stuff" than others. What appears to be non-essential to some is a necessity to others. :@

[enblethen]

Neighbors MH has a non-detachable that has to be fed through hole in compartment every time it is used. Tried to get them to change to detachable, but no they decided to hang through compartment door. let it slam shut and Zap! Need cord repaired!
Put the rig on a diet!

[JoeTampa]

Yep, it's detached, and no, there's no real room in the passthrough and nothing of consequence that can be removed. It's mostly essentials; stuff to connect water/sewer/electric, our grill, fire pit, kids scooters, leveling blocks, tools, etc. Nothing terribly extraneous.

[SolidAxleDurang]

Toss mine in bed of truck. Loosely coiled. Not putting effort into it.

If I'm not on the road, mine is plugged in.

[stickdog]

I've been coiling mine in a five gallon bucket for the last 6 years. Less room than a tote easy to carry often find other uses for the bucket while not storing the cable.

[Old-Biscuit]

sch911 wrote:

enblethen wrote:
Is it a detachable cord?
If not that would be my first mod. Change it to one that is detachable.

Well it must be if the OP stores it in a tote inside the TT...

If it were me I'd re-evaluate what is kept in the pass through. I'd bet some of that will fit inside the TT.

I would re-evaluate the evaluation and off load some of that not needed items.

We FTd for 7 yrs and I was always amazed at the stuff weekenders/vacationers piled into their RVs.
They would start unload and unloading and unloading .like a circus clown car it just never ended

As for that anaconda cord...mine went into a 5 gallon and then into the back of truck bed.