[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] Dear Gary-from-Warrenton: CJDave has read through this list of posts, and has observed so very many good ideas and suggestions. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] It is therefore with a great deal of respect and admiration for the other posters that I add my personal view as to what you should do. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] What you have heah, Gary, is a HUGE opportunity to do good. Yes, you can do good and you will reap the benefits of that good in the coming years that you spend walking around on this mud ball. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] FIRST let me say that there is hardly anything as handy as a "contractor panel"; that is to say an 8-circuit breaker panel mounted to a piece of heavy plywood and fed with twenty feet of #8/4 cable. The breaker box is surrounded by outlets of various sizes and types such that there is nothing that it cannot service, be it a motor home, a 220v welder, or a jig saw. This panel can hang on the wall on a hook, can flop on the floor, can be dragged out into the driveway, or can be rolled up and hidden away. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] What you need is a cord cap to fit the 50A receptacle and the cord and a nice strain relief, and a panel and some wood. Then choose the outlets: 120v 20A GFI; 230V 20 Amp, 230V 30 AMP, 120v 30 AMP, 120V 50 Amp.....the list goes on and on. Array the outlets periferally on the same board as the panel. You'll LOVE this setup, and best of all, if you MOVE, you take it with you. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I first saw this in a fancy hotel in San Francisco where I was doing an infrared inspection. They have to be ready for ANYTHING in their big conference rooms so they have these four-pole 50A outlets around the room and oodles of portable panels for the Threado Sewing Machine convention to use or for the Blitzo Company trade show booth....you name it, eventually they'll need it. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] It used to be a huge problem when the chick from marketing rushed down to engineering and told them that she needed thirty, 20-AMP outlets for the upcoming Xerox company convention or some such thing. Cute as she was, they had to inform her that it was not a possibility; UNTIL, that is, they came up with the portable panel idea. Now everyone is smiling and the cutie from marketing is welcomed into the engineering dept like a long lost cousin. [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img] I copied their idea when we were in temporary rental quarters and I needed to run my welder. I have since used the panel for two different house remodel jobs, and now it hangs in my half-built shop as a temporary panel for THAT job. [img]/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]