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[bevedfelker]

Hooligan's drawing makes way more sense. The adapter is not providing two legs with 50 amps and my 30 amp circuit breaker is limiting the 50 amps to 30. I thought if you apply 50 amps to a 30 amp circuit breaker -- well it pops because that what it is designed to do for an overload of 50 amps on a 30 amp CB.

Hooligan's drawing shows that one leg of the 50 amp end does nothing except provide a "neutered" leg to fit the hole of the 50 amp connector on the pedestal. So the real limiting factor with the adapter is that one leg is not connected to anything (thereby not providing 110 VAC at 25 amps). Rather, the one leg that is properly wired provides 110 volts at somewhere around 25 amps.