Main power question

[Chilidog]

Hello,
I have a 2019 Jayco eagle 321, It has the 50 amp and i believe the 4 pole plug? Yes i made the mistake of not having the right adapter and ended up killing
my fireplace. I was looking at buying the Honda 2200 and put them in parallel to get 4400watts. One will have a 125v 30 amp plug for the mail line.
What adapter will i need to get this to work. Currently Im using 240v 30amp line.
Thanks

 

[Holdmybeer]

Hello,
I have a 2019 Jayco eagle 321, It has the 50 amp and i believe the 4 pole plug? Yes i made the mistake of not having the right adapter and ended up killing
my fireplace. I was looking at buying the Honda 2200 and put them in parallel to get 4400watts. One will have a 125v 30 amp plug for the mail line.
What adapter will i need to get this to work. Currently Im using 240v 30amp line.
Thanks

I'm not following, where did you come up with a 240v 30amp line and what are you plugged into? If you're at home your dryer outlet is 240v 30 amp. unless you've had a separate outlet installed. If you're at a campground that 30 amp plug on the pedestal is 120v. 3600 watts There's plenty of adapters to pare a 240v 50 amp down to 120v 30 amp. You'll just get one leg @120v. and 3600 watts max.

 

[Chilidog]

Thank you, I think that was my confusion. I am plugged into 240v 3amp at the moment. I messed up my microwave and fireplace because i thought the adapter would have the power right, its has me afraid about
shore power. I have not been to an RV park yet, so i was assuming 240v everywhere. Thank you again

 

[Holdmybeer]

Thank you, I think that was my confusion. I am plugged into 240v 3amp at the moment. I messed up my microwave and fireplace because i thought the adapter would have the power right, its has me afraid about
shore power. I have not been to an RV park yet, so i was assuming 240v everywhere. Thank you again

Well if you've got a 50 amp plugged into a 240 v.30 amp outlet on an appropriate sized breaker, you shouldn't mess up any appliances. You'd just trip the breaker. You have the same voltage just fewer watts and amps. If you plug your 50 amp. into the park pedestal, 50 amp recepticle, you're good.

 

[Chilidog]

What had happened was i plugged into the 240v 30amp house plug, used a 50 to 30 adapter, turned on the microwave, blew that. I checked with a multimeter and I had 120 on each side of the outlet.

 

[Wemustrv]

So the outlet wiring is no different between the house 240 and RV 240 the difference is that the RV splits to two distinct busses of 120 volt. Really struggling to see how you damage equipment unless you did not shut the power off on both the outlet and RV prior to plugging into the outlet and then experienced a surge or arc as you plugged in.

The difference it in the RV panel it provides two individual 120 volt power sources. A typical residential panel still has line one (L1) and line two (L2) however each side of the panel has has alternating L1 and L2 on each side of the panel which allows for 240 using a 2 pole breaker. On an RV panel strict separation left side of panel all L1 right side of the panel all L2 no 240 available

 

[Alan_Hepburn]

Part of the problem is sloppy terminology. An RV can be either 120V 30A or 120V/240V 50A. A house outlet can be 120V 30A, 240V 30A, 120V/240V 30A, or 120V/240V 50A, or any other user-configured mess. If the house is 240V 30A then it has L1, L2, and ground conductors while the RV needs to see L1, ground, and neutral.

 

[Kevin D Pem]

Your house can have any configuration. All depends on the person doing the work.
Receptacles are designed to make such outcomes impossible. However a DIY project, or unqualified handyman can render the well thought out industry standards, and regulations useless.

If you're appliances are in fact dead, correction should start with a professional inspection of house wiring in question first.