Hello all; My boat is set up with the common 30A plug/cord and this works for almost all the local marinas.
However, occasionally I need to go into a slip that has only a 50A service. Sometimes the marina can supply a 'pigtail' that goes from the 50A plug to 2-30 A female plugs so I can use that set-up as well. Of course sometimes I am out of luck since they have no 'loaner' pigtails. Thought I would buy an adaptor that would have a female 30A receptacle and a 50A male plug. These are available on-line or West Marine but it appears that there are 2 different 50A male plugs, one for 125V service and another for 125/250V service and they are not interchangeable--the male plugs have different 'teeth' arrangements. My question is what is the most likely male plug that I should have on whatever I buy--the 50A/125V or the 50A/125/250V? Even the on-line versions are not inexpensive so I would like to buy the adaptor with the plug which is the 'most common" 50A male. Or is this marina dependent? On the air conditioner topic, I have a 16K BTU unit from Dometic which has worked like a champ for the past 4-5 years. Like many C&Cs, room for duct work is somewhere between slim and none. Given the rather tight quarters on our racer/cruisers, I gave up on ducts and plumbed the single inlet through the shower wall blowing into the main cabin thru the open head door with a single return in the aft cabin right next to the unit. For my use (after race cool downs, occasional overnights on the boat at a marina, this 'duct-less' set-up works fine. YMMV, depending on how you use the boat of course. Charlie Nelson Water Phantom C&C 36 XL/kcb [email protected]
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