I live along coastal Maine in a little tiny house on my 28 acres. Because tiny houses have a little bit of RV DNA in their genes, my 50 amp utility power comes from the pole, into a cutoff switch attached to the side, and then over to what is normally seen on RVs and boats, my shore power input receptacle.When the power goes out, I have a generator which can handle the entire house, but need to swap the SS2-50R equipped shore power cable with the cable going to my generator. My generator only has one high current outlet option, that being an L14-30 receptacle, which is odd considering it's capable of providing up to 48 amps. This particular combination of plug types on a reasonably long cable doesn't seem to be very common, so I was relieved to find it.Of course I didn't do any sort of dry run or dress rehearsal to ensure everything fit as promised and any issues in the process could be identified before I would need the generator for a real world power outage! Why would I take all the fun out of it? That day would eventually come, and it came at night during torrential rains and very obnoxiously high winds. Everything was going about as smooth as it could until the last step before firing the generator up.It was dark, so I figured I had the orientation of the pins off because they SS2-50R side which plugs into the shore receptacle wasn't going in regardless of alignment. Then I saw what was happening, there was a pointy pin right in the middle of the connector that was preventing any of the other pins from engaging. I looked at the receptacle on the house to see if the one I just removed had broken off in the hole in the center, but it couldn't have, there was no hole.I picked up the service line cable to look at it's SS2-50R connector and sure enough, no sharp spike in the center. Ok, so I figured the spike on the generator cable must have a spring which allows the spike to retract, and it's stuck or something. No spring, no retract, no stuck.After carefully comparing the two SS2-50R connectors to determine if there were any subtle differences in their 4 pins and the ground plates, I concluded that other than the inexplicable spike in the center of the generator cable, the one I'm writing this review for, they were identical to each other. I did try to see if I could figure out if the spike actually had a function or purpose associated with the circuit the connector would be making, but came up with nothing certain.So, the decision was made, I went to the tool shed, found my hacksaw, smiled when I noticed the fine toothed metal cutting blade already attached, and made the connector what I needed it to be. I was pleased with how close I was able to cut to the face of the connector, which was about as flush as you could get. The pointy spike was liberated from the connector in under 3½ minutes, and it fit into the receptacle almost like it was meant to.Not being certain of the purpose the part I had just cut off caused me a little apprehension when it was time to flip the breakers back on, but those concerns evaporated as soon as the house came back to life!So, bottom line, this isn't the most common setup out there, and might require you get a little midevil on it with some cutting tools. But once it's ready, no issues at all!