Where can I find T&B (Thomas & Betts) circuit breakers, or compatible?
I have a 2000 Keystone Montana that I'm attempting to hook up to a power line from our PV solar system we have on our property. The 5th wheel has been on our land since we bought it about 5 years ago, and when we needed power (it's more of a storage unit for my tools and a break room when it's raining than a true rv right now.), we used our 4kw Sportsman generator.
My problem is that I've run a 100' rv power cord from the systems 'power control shed' and something isn't clicking. Until I completed the PV system, we used a 4000w Sportsman generator when we needed power in the 5'er. And when I hooked up the system to the trailer the first time to check if all was well, the 120v lights and the air conditioner came on and seemed to work fine. But the other day when I tried it again, I'm not getting current past the power cable. I've used my Fluke 117 multimeter to troubleshoot, and this is what I'm coming up with. Let me preface this with what the pv system is composed of. I have (2) Trace SW5548 inverter/chargers run in series with the connection cable to perform this. 8kw of solar panels feeding it. I've run two legs of 120, one from each inverter, to a 50A connection box mounted on the side of the 'power shed'. Since the 5th wheel is a 30A system, I bought a 30A 100' 10g wire power cable to run from the shed to the trailer. I've got a 50A to 30A adapter at the shed, and an adapter from the 3 wire cable plug to mate with the 3 prong hook up on the trailer, which uses the 2 "bent" connectors (hot and neutral), along with the 'flat' ground. I'm getting 120v at the hot connector on the cable there, with 0 on the white/neutral. All good up to this point.
But when I try to take readings at the breaker box on the inside of the rear wall where the input is, which is only about 18" of main wire between the outer socket and the breakers, I'm getting no voltage coming out of the breakers, and power only coming into one of them. Something else I don't quite understand is that there are 4 wire's coming into the box. Black and red, which I would normally say are the hot wires, one feeding each of the two breakers, a white neutral and a green ground. How can there be 4 wires coming off of a 3 wire prong? At first I thought, well maybe one is feeding the converter to charge the batteries??, but both the wires are feeding into the inputs of the two breakers in the box.
These two breakers are both T&B breakers. One is a 30A single pole SR-100 type TB, and the second is a 20A double pole YF-6738 type TBBD.
I failed to try checking it with the generator due to darkness falling. Although I'm posting to mainly find out if anyone knows where I can find these breakers to buy as replacements in case they are bad, I'm also really confused about the box wiring, also. Short of pulling the socket coming into the 5th wheel to find out how these wires are configured and 'what goes where', I was wondering if anyone here could explain where these wires go, and what may be the cause of suddenly not getting any power inside, when there is at least one leg of 120 at the plug going into that socket. I've attempted to find the schematics on this rig before, but apparently Keystone is not giving out that information, at least that was the general consensus a few years ago when I looked for it.
So, if anyone out there knows where I can buy some replacement breakers (I believe T&B has been bought out by another company), or if anyone can give me any information about something I'm missing here, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any ideas or comments on this. Lee