50 or 30 amp

Originally posted by lostagain Tars, I should add a comment regarding legal responsibility for taking risks.

Respectfully, I would suggest maybe you shouldn't.  As mentioned earlier, you are talking to 8 forum regulars, mostly Senior Members, and mostly, I think, somewhere between mature and very mature.  I'm pretty sure we all realize that actions can have consequences and that we are responsible for our own deeds or mis-deeds.  Good odds.

I think it's absurd, not to mention condescending, to suggest that we better have our money offshore if we want to use a dogbone.  (I think that's what we're talking about.)  If I use one and I blow a fuse, I'll pay for the fuse.  If I burn up my cord or converter, or my Pod, I'll buy another one.  If I burn down 14,000 homes, or by some Rube Goldberg sort of scenario I somehow manage to cause the end of the world as we know it, well, I know I'll suffer the consequences.  In the latter case, crazy as it is, but nevertheless conceivable, I hope my suffering will be brief.

Aside from absurd, or maybe because of that, this is getting to be kind of funny.  You think the thread must be done, but then someone comes up with something else, a la when Colombo is leaving the room and he turns and says, "There's just one more thing...." 

Columbo had better writers.

TT

Tars, we disagree.  I would say "respectfully" disagree but really that is a pejorative use that implies the other person is full of baloney, which you are certainly not.  

Three points:

1.  My intent is far from intending to be condescending regarding the use of the 50/30A dogbone but to be informative.  If you don't like the outcome, then you are certainly free to so as you please.  But at least you are now aware that the risk is a tad bit greater than you may have previously thought.

2.  I really don't care if you choose to use a dogbone and burn up your trailer and sustain a financial loss. [Well actually I do, but not a lot.]  But you are really wrong in your statement that if you cause some kind of a disaster from it's use "you'll suffer the consequences" as though the other people are not relevant to the equation.  In the last two years, over 100 people lost their lives and thousands lost everything they had because of runaway electric fires that wiped out California towns.  [We were camping in Calistoga in our Pod the day the Tubbs fire started.]  It is the victims of those fires who worry me far more than you or what ever you will suffer.  And it is not condescending to say there is a snowball's chance in hell  you would have the resources to help even one of these victims.  In other words, Tars, you aren't taking a risk just for yourself, you are risking the lives of others in spite of a manufacturer's warning; with a risk of a nearly unimaginable order of magnitude.  Please don't come to our western forests and use your 50/30A dogbone.

3.  As for who may or may not be following this thread.  I really don't know who reads it.  It is obvious who has written in it, but I don't believe there is a total read count available.  So if my cautions and the cautions of others who are informed on this issue stop someone from accidentally starting a fire, it was time well spent.