lightingguy3710
Member
Hi all,
A venue recently asked me if I could simply build adapters (with no breakers, fuses, etc.) to convert from a L5-30 to 5-20 Edison. The L5-30s are currently permanently wired into an electrical panel with 50' of 10/3 SOOW and are protected with 30 amp breakers.
I told the venue I could not make such adapters because the female 5-20 (Edisons) need to have a 20 amp breaker upstream of them to protect the load further downstream. I told them that the way to do it is to have an electrician come out and change the ends from L5-30s to 5-20s and to ALSO change the breakers in the panel to 20 amp ones for the changed cords.
In a nutshell, I'm assuming you cannot make a L5-30 male to 5-20 female adapter without any sort of breaker protection for the 5-20.
Is my thinking correct on this or am I being overly cautious?
A venue recently asked me if I could simply build adapters (with no breakers, fuses, etc.) to convert from a L5-30 to 5-20 Edison. The L5-30s are currently permanently wired into an electrical panel with 50' of 10/3 SOOW and are protected with 30 amp breakers.
I told the venue I could not make such adapters because the female 5-20 (Edisons) need to have a 20 amp breaker upstream of them to protect the load further downstream. I told them that the way to do it is to have an electrician come out and change the ends from L5-30s to 5-20s and to ALSO change the breakers in the panel to 20 amp ones for the changed cords.
In a nutshell, I'm assuming you cannot make a L5-30 male to 5-20 female adapter without any sort of breaker protection for the 5-20.
Is my thinking correct on this or am I being overly cautious?