My name is David. We have bought our first Motor home. It is 1966 Challenger bus conversion with the Detroit 8V72 and Allison auto tranny which we will use to pull our rock crawler to various off road parks and the beach etc. Very solid rig for us to upgrade and customize to us. I'll start with my electrical ??'s because we could use it as is as long as we have some power, I'm sure to have other ??'s as we start customizing and changing what we don't like on the inside. The ??'s have probably been asked a hundred time already, but I wanted some answers kinda quick so I can at least get us ready to camp and not wanting to risk their safety due to an electrical fire. The inside is already wire up and runs into a 50amp service box with the 50 amp male cord running out of it to plug into shore power. 1st ?, I have a 24v inverter to run things while on the road, it is currently not hooked up. I do not want to wire it straight to the service box, I rather run it to either a switch or female 50 amp receptacle. This way I do not forget to disconnect inverter and end up feeding shore power into it and frying it. Inverter has the standard three wire outlet and multiple 110 outlet type connector. I plan on hard wiring into the inverter. It being an older rig it doesn't have all the automatic switching or even a manual switch over built in. 2nd question, other than a long 50amp long extension cord what other accessories to do I need to connect to shore power. Example, some parks have 30amp service and others have 50amp service. Last time I was there, I noticed the electrical service boxes had either a 30amp or 50amp along with 2 standard electrical outlets. Stove, oven, heat, water heater all run of propane. I'm open to all advice and suggestions ya'll have to offer. Like I said, we are newbies to the motorhome world. I'm also notice there are a couple different types male plugs, some have 4 blades, some have 3. Mine has a 4 blade male running to the service box
Thanks ya'll
David
Thanks ya'll
David