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[TurnerFam]

you hit the nail on the head... experience is the best teacher.

While I have other 'dogbone' type adapters, for various other electrical sharing scenarios, these 'puck' style adapter, if that's what some want to refer to them as, work just fine - all you are doing is asking it to 'adapt' a LOWER amperage to your Higher amperage connector - no damage can be had with that scenario.

Simple, AMPERAGE draw, or usage, is not something that just 'happens' when you plug into shore power, whether 50amps, 30amps, 15/20amps, or anything in between - it's only when you USE your appliances and electrical items that you are drawing AMPS.

YOU control amps - not the coach, and not the electrical outlet you are plugging into.
Your own breakers, or the shore power breaker, is there to safely LIMIT your usage, if you ask to use too much, too quickly.
When breakers trip, it's not that there is a 'problem', as though something with the coach is wrong, but that the user has asked for too much power thru a single wire, creating too much heat, and tripping the 'heat sensitive' breaker, just as it's designed for.

In a scenario where you would use one of these 15/20amp 'puck' or 'dogbone' adapters, usually also along with a similar 30amp adapter for those of us with 50amp Shore Cords, you will not be able to draw MORE than the shore power breaker is designed for: 15 to 20amps.


Along those lines, and with all of the different camping scenarios we've been exposed to, I've used many different and varied varieties of these adapters for 'special' situations.

-I was at my sister's house, in her driveway overnight, and adapted DOWN to her garage's 20amp outlet, with my 'simple' 30 and 15/20 adapters. Did I trip her breaker several times? Yes. But, once you realize you can't also keep your elec Water Heater and battery Charger on at the same time as everything else, you learn to 'manage' what you can do on limited amperage.

-I've used the 50-30amp adapter MANY times since many rv parks and campgrounds ONLY have 30amp service. That's the 'normal' adaptation that most RVrs run into.

-I've used my 50-30/30 DUAL dogbone adapter to attach to TWO 30amps outlets, at a private rv site, and also at several rv parks with vacant/unused sites next door, to get 60amps of usable power.

-I've used my 50-30/15 DUAL dogbone adapter to attach to a 30amp outlet, and a 15/20amp outlet, at the same time, giving me between 45-50amps of usable power.
The 30amp outlet was the typical campground type, next to the motorhome, but the 15/20amp outlet was one I found not too far away at a private bath/laundry house, which had an exterior outlet. Nice.


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go, travel.... ENJOY! : )