DC Electrical problem!
Hello all, I am at my wits end with an electrical issue! I think I have narrowed it down to a DC or converter problem, but I want to be sure enough on whether I should buy a new converter or not. Here's where it started:
DH drove away with shore power plugged in. Pigtail was fine, but the ground on extension cord was yanked off. After three days now of going over all outlets, lights, and appliances with some wonderful help from friends who are knowledgeable about household electric but not RV, and everyone being stymied, here's what we have discovered:
Shore power still works. Outlets tested with multimeter test ok. We currently (pun intended) have left the converter out so if we need to put a new one in, we don't have to go through all the trouble of taking it back out. It is a one-shot, riveted shut that cannot be taken apart to check any internal relay switch. (a Magnetek 45 amp)
Fridge will only switch between AC and propane, even when disconnected from shore power and on coach power. It just turns itself off completely and cannot be turned on manually.
All interior DC lights work. Fan for air cond and heater turns on.
The monitor panel containing the levels test, water pump, water heater, and vent fan is dead in all three power modes. Generator on/off works (also on monitor panel)
Outside radio (a DC appliance) is fried.
DH fully charged coach batteries, but they have not been load tested.
I do not know where the fuses are for each of those functions, but being that the whole panel is dead, I don't think it's a fuse issue...?
Please help, the diagnostics cost for the whole system at an RV shop is crazy and I'd like to say I have a converter problem, or a fuse, or whatever. And it is really getting old taking a shower out of buckets heated on the stove.
DH drove away with shore power plugged in. Pigtail was fine, but the ground on extension cord was yanked off. After three days now of going over all outlets, lights, and appliances with some wonderful help from friends who are knowledgeable about household electric but not RV, and everyone being stymied, here's what we have discovered:
Shore power still works. Outlets tested with multimeter test ok. We currently (pun intended) have left the converter out so if we need to put a new one in, we don't have to go through all the trouble of taking it back out. It is a one-shot, riveted shut that cannot be taken apart to check any internal relay switch. (a Magnetek 45 amp)
Fridge will only switch between AC and propane, even when disconnected from shore power and on coach power. It just turns itself off completely and cannot be turned on manually.
All interior DC lights work. Fan for air cond and heater turns on.
The monitor panel containing the levels test, water pump, water heater, and vent fan is dead in all three power modes. Generator on/off works (also on monitor panel)
Outside radio (a DC appliance) is fried.
DH fully charged coach batteries, but they have not been load tested.
I do not know where the fuses are for each of those functions, but being that the whole panel is dead, I don't think it's a fuse issue...?
Please help, the diagnostics cost for the whole system at an RV shop is crazy and I'd like to say I have a converter problem, or a fuse, or whatever. And it is really getting old taking a shower out of buckets heated on the stove.
