Changing 20A plug to a 50A plug in order to use a 50A receptacle?

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hurk27

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I should add there are three basic means of protecting conductors in a circuit (including after the receptacle)

Limiting of the load that can be connected by user.
Providing over current protection ahead or down stream of a conductor
and fault current protection that always has to be ahead of the conductor it is protecting.

The last one is where there is a problem in protecting appliances that was design for lower current sized circuits but used on larger size circuits.
 
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