Burning Smell and super hot lights
Hi all, I have just purchased a 1980 Ford E-350 FAN motor home. This is my second purchase of an oldie, but they seem to do me well for the local camping trips I frequently take. As with the first...
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I would start with putting in a good battery. Your converter is trying to charge a dead battery, and working extra hard. The battery got hot because the voltage coming from the converter did not encounter normal charged battery resistance, and just kept pumping amps through the dead battery.
Then I would take your screwdriver and tighten every single wire you can get to in your breaker panel box, and that includes all the negative and positive wires everywhere you can get to. Even the heavy wires can be reached by removing a panel cover. Do this while disconnected from AC.
Now, running 12 volt lights off a converter that is putting out maybe as high as 15 volts to charge the battery is like a 125% over voltage situation. The lights are bound to get hot. You might use the incandescent lights when on plug in power, and the LED's while on battery only. Even the incandescent lights get hot too.
Get those connections tightened, and a good battery in there, and then see what happens.
Then I would take your screwdriver and tighten every single wire you can get to in your breaker panel box, and that includes all the negative and positive wires everywhere you can get to. Even the heavy wires can be reached by removing a panel cover. Do this while disconnected from AC.
Now, running 12 volt lights off a converter that is putting out maybe as high as 15 volts to charge the battery is like a 125% over voltage situation. The lights are bound to get hot. You might use the incandescent lights when on plug in power, and the LED's while on battery only. Even the incandescent lights get hot too.
Get those connections tightened, and a good battery in there, and then see what happens.
