|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594
8 point
|
|
8 point
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594 |
I’ll try to make this as short as I can, got to camper and had zero power, 12v bought last year flat dead. I check cables going to battery and get nada. So I think converter has went bad. My camper has shore power wired straight to pole on a 30amp breaker that runs inside and hits another 30/20 breaker I flip it off and back on and it sparks and my converter kicks on but cuts back off but that breaker kept making popping sounds so I cut it back off and also went ahead and just killed my main at pole. I’m going ahead and ordering a converter but does that breaker inside sound like it’s going bad? Or what’s it’s issue.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 23,821 Likes: 49
Freak of Nature
|
|
Freak of Nature
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 23,821 Likes: 49 |
First thing I would do is see if the breaker stays on with the converter disconnected.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594
8 point
|
|
8 point
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594 |
Valid point, I’ll check that when I change out the converter. I’ve went ahead and ordered one. Simply because of the battery being dead and no voltage to the battery from the cables from converter.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594
8 point
|
|
8 point
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594 |
I’ll honestly probably go ahead and change converter and the breaker just incase it’s gotten weak. But being the breaker that’s coming from the pole from 30 to inside I don’t see how it could’ve overloaded unless the converter was trying to work and surging. Unless I’m thinking of this totally wrong.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 7,091 Likes: 50
14 point
|
|
14 point
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 7,091 Likes: 50 |
You can disconect the convertor and check resistance from hot to ground.
"And the days that I keep my gratitude
Higher than my expectations
Well, I have really good days" Ray Wylie Hubbard
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 12,172 Likes: 47
Booner
|
|
Booner
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 12,172 Likes: 47 |
This is why I always just pull the battery and disconnect from shore power if I’m not going to be there for a while.
Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes
On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here.
On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,222
8 point
|
|
8 point
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,222 |
I don't remember what issues I was having but I pulled my converter to replace it and found blown fuse on backside of it, replaced it and problems went away. Probably not your problem but worth checking.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594
8 point
|
|
8 point
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,594 |
Frogeye I couldn’t get that lucky
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 23,821 Likes: 49
Freak of Nature
|
|
Freak of Nature
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 23,821 Likes: 49 |
Not much chance of a “weak” breaker but it won’t hurt anything to change it. I’d look at the busbar closely and make sure it’s not pitted.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
