MrPalazzo
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Good morning, ryno. Anyone can be wrong. I’ll give you another example. There’s a county RV park in Norman, OK where we stay when my wife visits her family. They have a few 50 amp sites and a lot of 30 amp sites. It’s set up so that services are between two sites and it’s never crowded. I have a ‘Y’ cable with two 30 amp, 120 volt, male RV Plugs on the arms and a 50 amp female on the leg. I plug the two 30’s into two separate 30 amp outlets and my RV power cable into the 50 amp female. My inside panel reads 50 amps, and I monitor L1 and L2 on the other panel. I thought that it was 120, but really don’t care. It provides the necessary 50 amps, and works for me. I have similar results with a 50 amp parallel kit and two 3500 watt remote control generators.
while you won't get the full '100 amps' of usable amperage you would get from the 50amp RV outlet, you will only be getting 60amps from the two 30amp outlets, though that's probably still plenty for most any needs. We've done this many times at disparate places or private parks where there is only 30amp outlets available - the adapter works very well for these situations.
Yes, the 50amp outlet would be 240v outgoing, but your RV is most likely only making use of two 120v HOT legs coming into your Main Panel. When you make use of the dual 30amp outlet adapter, you are simply doing the same with two 30amp HOT Legs, sharing those across your RV's main panel - 30amps on each side, rather than 50.
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