With the hurricane that was here last week, I bought a generator (it was the only thing available, a Troy-built 5550 M1919) but was lucky (I did not have to use it). It has a 30amp/120-240 volt female receptacle, but different than the 30amp male plug that the TT has. This generator comes with 30amp cable that plugs into the generator, and what looks like 3 each 120v plug-ins at the other end. My question. Can I plug the 30amp cable into the generator, then plug the (20amp-30amp adapter) plug into one of the 3 each 120v looking plugs, then the TT into the (20amp-30amp adapter) and run the 13,500 AC and other stuff in the TT? Or do I have to find so kind of other adapters???

Thanks for any assistance. I have attempted to call customer service for Troy Built but they seem to be busy ??? and can not get an “OFFICAL” answer.

 

We have a Generac portable generator that we use when dry camping. It, like most portable generators, did not have a 30 amp outlet that the trailer can plug into directly. I went to Home Depot and bought a female 30 amp shore power plug. It came in an electrical box, could not find just a female end. I then used a short length of 12/2 wire and wired the box to the plug that came with the generator to make a short extension cord of sorts. As long as your generator has enough wattage, and I'm guessing the 5550 in the model number refers to its wattage, you should be able to power that air conditioner. To run other equipment you need to add up what they pull in wattage to know the generator's limits to what you can run. The "normal" looking outlets on the generator are probably only 15 amp and will not carry the load of an air conditioner.

 

You need to head towards man land (aka home deopt, lowes, menards, any of the cool stores) and pick up a female rv plug and a male plug that mates with your gen, and a small piece of 10/2 w/g wire (yup, gotta use at least 10/2... 12/2 not gonna cut it for long term with 5500 watts)... make up a short adapter, hook it up, and plug in your tt.

Remember, however, this is a loud generator, and can not be used in/around/or anywhere near any other camper! Your neighbors would likely not be very happy to hear that construction generator running beside them, and may be less than polite when asking you to shut it off (or doing it themselves )

Dennis

 

HI to get a loud gen quiet, go to a muffler shop get a smallest muffler you can find, with the smallest inlet pipe, the motor had a long pipe with a small round muffler on it, i cut the muffler off, added pipe to it , hook the muffler up to the gen motor ,i bend pipe so the new muffler would be in side of the frame , nice a quiet, it will not hurt the motor power or the watts it can give out my neighbors love me again i to have the wire hook up they are talking about , all so i have a male to male 110 v plugs, i take the gen to a out side plug on the house , turn off the main in the house, with it all pluged up i have 1/2 of the breaker box hot by back feeding , it gives me one light the ice box and a fan,
jman

 

I'd make or buy a proper dogbone. I'd suspect your 30-20 amp adapetr is really 30-15 amp (20 amp has one blade at right angles to the other). the contacts aren't rated for the start up current you'll pull on the A/C. It (the adapter) would likely last for awhile, but take a beating.

Have you checked the RV supply store for a proper dogbone?

female end:

http://www.campingworld.com/browse/s...m?skunum=20473

 

Warning! When you are making a connection to the 120/240 outlet, you ONLY use one of the 120 leads. There are 4 leads available: 2 hot, 1 common, 1 ground. If you wire up both hot feeds, you will fry your TT's transformer with 240 volts. I'm not an electrician, but this is what I was told...

I could not find the proper female plug in any of the local hardware stores -- had to get one from my TT dealer (came with about 12" of cable). My generator came with a male plug, so it was easy building a dogbone adapter. It works great! Have fun with your new toy...
Franklin