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Originally Posted by strawbarry
My concern for a standard 110 volt plug flanged inlet would be someone plugging a standard drop cord into it and destroying your solar controller.
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I agree!
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Originally Posted by strawbarry
I was referring to a twist lock flanged inlet like the below pictured.
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These inlets are available at a local electrical supply house.
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According to the box, confirmed by the appearance of the contacts, that's a 50-amp 3-wire (plus outer ground terminal), so it's an L5-50 - a higher-current variant of the style commonly used for portable generator output and for removable shore power cords on 30-amp RVs such as Escapes.
That increases the current-carrying capacity (AC, anyway) to 50 amps instead of 15 amps for the other AC connector shown, but it is still interchangeable with cords carrying 120 volts AC. Of course, no one has one of these around a typical campsite, so an accident is unlikely... but it's a huge thing that mates with another huge connector and the trailer side is not designed for outdoor mounting so it would need to go behind a protective door.
There might be a precedent for this use of connectors for purposes incompatible with their intended use: Marinco - a generally reputable supplier of marine and RV electrical hardware - suggests the L5-30 (locking 30-amp 125V AC) connector as a "
30 Amp Trolling System"... and trolling motors are 12V or 24V DC. I wouldn't do it.