I installed a 50 amp outlet coming from the Generator to use to power a friend’s disabled coach or power some of my circuits in my stick home in case of a power outage using a transfer switch.
A 50 amp plug with cover, some flex and wired to transfer switch on the generator side.
I mounted it in the electronics bay because it was easy to get to the transfer switch.
Foretravel wires Generator as 2 – 110VAC lines and NOT 220VAC
It is wired ahead of transfer switch on wires coming from the generator.
By Barry Beam 2003 U320 40′ 10/08
It seems that If we find ourselves somewhere that has a temporary power outage, it would be nice to be able to use our coach’s generator to help out. Also if we are boondocking near a coach that has a generator problem, it would be nice to have them plug their coach into our coach to temporarily have power. Same use as having an emergency generator.
Usually, the only coach outlets available are household-type 15/20-amp outlets outside or in a bay. And the circuit breakers controlling these outlets sometimes have other loads, limiting the power they can share before tripping our breakers.
We recently added an ‘outside’ 50-amp female outlet to tap into our generator. The outlet is a molded end of an extension cable that is connected to a new circuit breaker in our main breaker panel. Drilled a hole from the breaker area into the engine area and routed the cable down to our start battery bank area. I will probably never use the outlet, but it is there if needed.
The photo shows Buddy plug cable entering the main breaker panel from the lower left rear. And where the black, red, white & green cables connect. Since our generator can only produce max 70 amps, I decided to limit Buddy load to 60-amps by using a double 30-amp breaker.
