Charging at Campgrounds and RV Parks

[vfx]

A few plug layouts from here:

[vfx]

More:

[TEG]

Mods: I think VFX's last two posts are better suited to be moved to this topic:

Roadster Foundry mobile charging kit

Those dryer and range plugs are not something typically found at a campground.
(At least not out in the open).

[vfx]

Thanks TEG,

All these various charging threads are very confusing and spread out.

[TEG]

All these various charging threads are very confusing and spread out.

I don't know if I can ever make them non-confusing.
Sorry about the spread out bit - I had a few different ideas of points to bring up but in the end they end up converging.

In a way, it still makes sense to me the way they are separated, but I can see the pain with having to jump back and forth between topics to find everything.

Perhaps when I have more time I will try to consolidate and organize them better. It was somewhat of a learning process and forum Q&A to get to this point, so there ended up being too much history mixed in with the facts.

[vfx]

Yeah, I'm not blaming you. It just happens.

Battery has it's own section, perhaps Charging should have one as well. As Model S' get delivered much of this will be repeated in that area.

[Tdave]

Battery has it's own section, perhaps Charging should have one as well.

Yes! It deserves it. It is such a large and varied topic. Please don't merge threads. It will destroy the conversation flow.

[TEG]

VFX mentioned this nice glossy catalog of RV power accesories for further pondering.

[TEG]

Yet another "cheater" cable that could mislead some into thinking that they could use it with their Roadster:

Amazon.com: Camco 55025 RV Power Grip Maximizer 50 Amp Adapter: Automotive


So, they call it a "50 Amp" adapter but it doesn't provide 50 amps.

In the features it says:

Draws the combined power from a 15 and 30 amp outlet, which allows your RV to receive up to 45 amps

(It takes power from a NEMA 5-15 plug and a TT-30 plug and provides those circuits presented on a NEMA 14-50 socket )

So what they mean is that it provides one 15 amp 120V circuit to part of an RV, and another 120V (30 amp) circuit to another part of an RV (for instance if it had two 120V air conditioners).
If you plugged an MC240 into that contraption it probably wouldn't work because:

#1: The two 120V legs might be in phase and so the MC240 would see 0 volts across the two hots.
#2: If you were lucky enough to get split phases, still one phase would be behind a 15 amp breaker, and so the MC240 would probably trip the breaker on the NEMA 5-15 side.

(Someone please correct this if wrong - I never actually tried it myself)

[vfx]

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#2: If you were lucky enough to get split phases, still one phase would be behind a 15 amp breaker, and so the MC240 would probably trip the breaker on the NEMA 5-15 side.

If #2 is correct, wouldn't that happen just by plugging it (them) in?