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Originally Posted by mcgyver210
You can find a adapter to plug it in a 120v in many places including your local WalMart. They are quite common
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SCJBob, Just something to remember when using an adaptor, on your main trailer plugin. Most of your home 110V plugs are going to have 15 amp breakers. If you use over 15 amps of stuff in your trailer, you will trip your house breaker (if the breaker performs as manufactured), so I would stay away from running your campers air-conditioning while hooked up to just a 110 household plug-in. Of course it may not be as hot in PA as it is down here in Louisiana. The size/length wire of the extension cord (if one is needed) that you run from your house to your trailer will also need to be adequate.
Most of what the adaptor is used for, is when at campsites, when you need an extension cord to power something. You can then take an extension cord that has a regular 110v/15amp end (like you are used to seeing in your house), attach the adaptor, and plug it into the breaker box at the campsite (which will have 30 and 50 amp plugs) that does not have your normal household receptacles.
I am not sure how many amps that your onboard battery charger requires to function properly. Maybe Bill will point this out. Even when you are properly hooked up to a 30 amp breaker at a campsite, you can only run so many things in your camper at once. I think there are some forum topics here that kinda point out what you can and can't use at the same time. You are limited to 30 amps. A 15 amp service at your house, halves or more what you can run there. You may possible even have stuff in your house running off the same breaker too, and won't even have 15 amps to share.
I strongly advise that you have an electrician wire you an outside 30 amp service (if you're not qualified or building codes don't allow the homeowner to do it themself). That way you can power your trailer, just like at a campsite.....and can campout in the driveway, using the air conditioner......unless you like dry camping, which many of our members do.
I point all of this out because even breakers don't always trip as they are designed. We had one at the shop the other day, arc out and start a small electrical panel fire that was hooked up to our air compressor. That incident has kinda made me paranoid. Don't want anything bad to happen to you and yours.......if you are using an adaptor on your campers main plug-in.
Hopefully, our resident electrical engineer here will chime in with what is safe.
Bobby