Many times as you travel around the country you will find that you are in need of some sort of thingy that changes what you have into something you need. This happens most often in the electrical side of your Rig. If you have a 50 amp rig you may find the the campground you have only has 30 amp plug-ins. Or you may want to plug in your power pedestal power analyzer into the 30 amp or 50 amp plug-in to be sure that it is safe you plug into your rig.
Let’s see what these things look like and what they are use for. First the RV Dog Bone.
The typical RV Dog Bone is an electrical adapter that changes a 50 amp RV plug so that it can plug into the 30 amp socket of a power pedestal. The 30 Amp Male to 50 Amp Female Dog Bone looks like this;
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Of course there maybe a time when you need to plug your 30 amp Rig power cable into a 50 amp power pedestal socket The 50 amp Male to 30 amp Female Dog Bone looks like this;
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Plugging in you 30 amp RV into this adapter will not harm your Rig and will give you no more power that what you should have. The reason to do this is often the power socket on the power pedestal is worn or broken and the only good one is the one your power cord will not plug into. These RV Power Dog Bones let you mix and match to get some power.
So you have stopped by Grandma’s house to spend a few days and you need a way to plug your RV into her outside power socket so you can get some lights and keep the fridge going. What do you need well you need a 15 Amp Male plug to 30 amp Female plug . This little gadget is shown below.
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| 15 Amp Male plug to 30 amp Female plug
While these may not be all the ones you will ever need this group will get you started and cover most of the situations that you will find. One last bit of information the industry does make Y connector so that you can get 15 amp sockets from both 50 amp and 30 amp outlets from the power pedestal. I have shown one type below. I do not use these myself because where I camp has always had 15 amp sockets to plug into if I need to have 15 amps at the power pedestal. If you have a blow-up boat or kayak |
you might need this type of Y Adapter with 50 Amp Male Plug To RV 30 Amp and 15/20 Amp Female Connector Shown below is what it looks like;
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Y Adapter with 50 Amp Male Plug To RV 30 Amp and 15/20 Amp Female Connector |
The last thing I would like to cover is the pedestal power combiner. These devices combine the power outlets of the power pedestal to give you more amps. For example if you combine the power output of the 30 amp socket with the power output of the 15 amp socket on the power pedestal you would get 45 amps of power to work with. Or at least that is the theory. Again I do not use this type of device as my KZ Spree is only 30 amps. But to be fair I am showing you the device. The 45 amp Power Maximizer The unit is shown below;
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Click on the name of the item to learn more.
Until next time,
RVer Hints & Tips 