Do RV park hookups have home outlets or just 30A plugs only?

[Sentinelist]

I'm new at this obviously. The AC generating power center in my Lance took a dump, which I could honestly care less about as I was rewiring the whole thing to run off a battery bank with solar anyway (which it is now and is awesome). But I've lost my 30A 'shoreline' hookup for power as a result. Since it was all hardwired, I went ahead and just cut the cable and replaced it with a good 12GA standard electrical cord I can pull out and hookup to a home's power. The 3-way splitter on the other end inside gets the cables swapped over to it that are currently plugged into the inverter.

Do any RV parks with hookups have these standard connections as well or is it only the large 30A connections? I'm fully self-contained, but it'd be nice to plug in and run the AC for more than an hour a day...

[deltabravo]

n7bsn wrote:
Em, you do know that the conventional 15amp 120 plug is not rated for running the A/C, well, plus the converter and anything else. By "not rated" I mean it will may melt (yes I have seen that)

RUns my AC just fine and the plug hasn't melted.

If a plug melts, then it has other problems, not because I'm running 15 amps through a 15 amp plug.

Back on topic:

Every RV park/campground with power/state park I've been to has household style outlets in addition to 30 and 50 amp RV connections.
Most of them have the household style on a 20 amp breaker.

[Voyager_Mike]

You need to find a licensed electrician and show him what you are trying to do. If he doesn't go white in the face when he sees that, I miss my guess. Let him explain what can happen if you try that.

[twodownzero]

My AC (Coleman) seems to run just fine on 15 amps. I have a home RV outlet at my house but I don't even bother to use it.

[pjay9]

I am at loss here! What do you mean by 'Power Center'? Why did the 'Power center' die? How did you bypass it? Why did the shore power cord need to be eliminated? It seems that decreasing your shore side capability was not a good thing esp when it comes to running AC, since the start up draw takes some amps. To inhance my thoughts running my AC with the gen set really taxes my gen and it is a 2500 unit...don't be running anything else when the AC kicks on is my motto.
Just doesn't sound like a SOUND idea. Maybe someone can help me to understand. I say this as I have a very healthy respect for electricity. JMHO!!!

Gosh I forgot, yes most hook ups at any places I have been have at least a 15A (old place) most have 15/20A and 30A and now the 50A as shown above.

[mkirsch]

dadwolf2 wrote:
Most RV campgrounds have 15,30 & 50 amp service.

Don't suppose you have any pictures of your defunct power center and replacement set-up?

Sounds like he just has everything plugged into a "splitter."

I too would like to see pictures of the solution.

[camperpaul]

smkettner wrote:
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That pic is an old unit. New stuff requires GFCI for the 15/20 amp outlet.
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Look closely at the photo; the 20 Amp breaker is a GFCI.

[time2roll]

hedge wrote:
I believe the outlets people are calling 20a are actually 15a. a 20 A outlet should have one of the legs of the plug have a horizontal notch.... or is that just convention as the above pic shows the breaker as 20a?

You can connect a 5-15 outlet to a 20a breaker but a 5-20 must have 20a breaker. Either outlet will handle 20 amps just fine. And yes the 5-20 plug has the neutral rotated 90 degrees. 5-20 outlet has a T slot on the neutral to accept either.

That pic is an old unit. New stuff requires GFCI for the 15/20 amp outlet.

For those that think a roof air conditioner will not run on 20 amps... better check your branch circuit breaker.

[hedge]

I believe the outlets people are calling 20a are actually 15a. a 20 A outlet should have one of the legs of the plug have a horizontal notch.... or is that just convention as the above pic shows the breaker as 20a?

[camperpaul]

This is what I see in a lot of the places where I camp ...



Note:
The 30 Amp outlet has a GFCI as does the 15 Amp duplex outlet.

The 15 Amp outlet should be a 20 Amp because the GFCI breaker is 20 Amps.

[WyoTraveler]

Think the best solution would be buy a new Camco 30 amp plug and install it. Then buy a 30 to 20 amp adapter.

[hedge]

I'd never seen an RV pedestal without a 15a plug until a couple weeks ago. I was at a campground where the pedestal only had 30a. I normally only use a 12gauge extension cord so I didn't have the 30a to 15a adapter so I had pull my shore cable out from the mouse hole.

I've never seen a 50a in any of the campgrounds I go to.

[AnEv942]

Usually a 30 and/or 50 amp & standard 120v (nominal) 'home' receptacle. Never seen a pedestal that didn't have 'home' outlet, but never seen one that had more than 15amp breaker for it. Whether your A/C will run or not?

[Super_Dave]

When you lift the lid to the power pedestal in the campsite there is the funky plug outlet and a standard 110v receptacle outlet. (Using laymens terms)

[trailgranny50]

We just changed cord styles from hard wired to marine twist on type like many of the newer campers use leaving us with a 30A cord with only the male end intact. Went to camper place, purchased the female end and who's it up which gave us a 30A extension cord. Were you to do this you could use the appropriate dog bone or other adapter to use the 120 outlet. Still don't overload that circuit at the box but at least you'll have a heavy enough cord for cheap. Right? Or would this actually Fix your issue completely. If your converter is dead, well that's another matter and beyond me. I use the pros on anything inside like that which might run something at the least n or burn the camper and me up.