i have a gas generator with a 50 amp plug marked 120/240 can i run 120 volt equipment on this plug?

Question

run a food concession trailer with gen and it keeps popping the 30amp plug when i have all the equip on. coffee pots ,steam pans, ref,freezer and other stuff

Answer 1

If you were to simply plug your cord into the 50A outlet, there is a potential overload issue to be addressed. Is is unlikely your existing cord is rated for 50 amps. You should have proper overcurrent protection, possibly through a small panel mounted in the trailer with multiple 15A circuits. You could then feed your coffee pots, steam pans, etc from independant circuits. There would be less worry about tripping the 50A breaker, and each device would have proper protection.
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Answer 2

If the selector is set to 120 volts, which it should be, you are trying to pull to many amps. You can try to turn one thing on at a time and let it warm up before you turn another thing on. This will reduce the required load at one time. If your gen has a 50 amp plug why are you talking about a 30 amp plug in your message? If your gen has a 50 amp breaker and your trailer has a 30 amp plug you will need to upgrade your trailer wiring to support your equipment.

Answer 3

Listen the plug is marked with 120 or 240 volt ! like most computer manufacturers provide the plug in the system-if you are using 10 volts turn the switch to 120 and if you wanted to use on 240 volts turn the switch towards 240 volts mentioned side.You can run by switching power supplies switch.you can run all your domestic appliances on 120 volts system including the air conditioner.If you anted to use 240 volts you need special plugging which you have buy separately from the market.

Answer 4

I don't. And I work in physics. That sounds like a technical question that's specific to the profession in which it would be used, or might be known by a few hobbyists who employ generators regularly. So I've got a question for you: if you were given the spatial potential energy function about a bound fermion in a space occupied by another bound fermion, could you compute its wavefunction, determine its probability map, and compute its stability and decay rate from that? 'Cause I can name a couple of women off the top of my head who not only can do that, but had a hand in teaching me how to do that. ... No? Just going to get grumpy about it in the form of your alter ego down there? I know, technical problems where you have to figure stuff out rather than look stuff up - things that require some skills beyond Googling stuff and looking in references - those can be hard. How about I make it easy on you: let's reduce the situation to one fermion and one dimension (I know, three dimensions is so hard!) and give you a simple two-term potential function wherein the energy increases with the inverse of the square of the distance from some epicenter and decreases proportionally to the inverse of the linear distance - something that could be roughly modeled by, say, V(r) = ar^(-2) - br^(-1) + c, where a < b and r the linear distance from some epicenter. So now you don't even have to do the part where you turn a physical situation into a mathematical statement (I know that step can be difficult for students with weak math and logic backgrounds). Now, at this point, I have some 18-year-old girls in some freshman classes I taught last year who could tell you the decay rate and escape energy of such a particle without even doing any math, as they could recognize that the triviality of the situation at this point (and, with a little math, I'll bet I could get them to come up with the wavefunction and probability map). Now, could you answer this simple technical question? Or would you have to go to one of the teenage girls for help?

Answer 5

Yes you should thats what the marking says and coffee pot tend to draw alot because of the heating element, also the fridge when the compresser kicks on.

Answer 6

Check the generator manual and the generator terminals. You don't want to be plugging 120V appliances in to a 240V source. Better yet, have an electrician check out your system(s)

Answer 7

yes