info on male plug

[hitchikerman]

Hi I am replacing the male end of my power cord and the one I got from Home depot just don't seem to cut it. The ground prong is U-shaped and I'm having a hard time plugging it into the female ends that I have...it just will not plug all the way in. Does anyone know where I get a replacement...remember it has to go into the side hole of the trailer

[sourdough]

Are you using a 30 or 50amp plug? CW or an RV center can sell you the plug. If I recall the ground pins ARE U shaped aren't they? Do you have the proper male/female components?

[hitchikerman]

it's is a 30 amp male and I think i got it fixed. What I had to do is pinch the u-shaped ground prong together a bit. It's tight but it will plug farther into receptacle

[sourdough]

Good. My 50 amp ground is U shaped and solid. My 50/30 amp adapter has more or less a round ground prong. Reckon a different male plug with different shaped prongs would be any better? Be sure and seat the male into the female receptacle without much, if any, of the conductors visible. You absolutely don't want to be able to touch any of them and preferably don't want water to get in between them. It can short out the receptacle, or worse, conduct the AC through the water and let you become the ground when you touch it.

[bobbecky]

If you got it from a big box store, it is probably a 240v dryer plug, not the one designed for an RV 30 amp, 120v application