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gwol
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Mar 21, 2014

Electrical Issue

I’m not sure if this is the right forum or not, to talk about an electrical issue, but here goes.

Tuesday (3/18/14) my DW and I took our new (to us) 1995 Carriage Callista Cove, out for our first trip. We just planned a few days at Port-O Bodega RV camp ground, located in Bodega Bay CA, just 40 miles from home. The site had full hook ups, which was a must for our first outing. All went well, got everything hook up and everything was working with out a problem, until we plugged in a small space heater. The electric at the site was 30 AMP, I hooked up my 30 AMP cord which was not an issue. The heater ran for 4 to 5 hours no problem, then it just stopped. I plugged it into another outlet and the heater worked without a problem so I knew it wasn’t the heater. The outlet that it was plugged into along with one in the bathroom, has no power coming into it. I flipped the breaker a couple of times still nothing, so I shut off all the breakers for a couple of minutes, turned them all back on and still nothing to those two outlets. Am I missing something?:(
  • I'll bet that somewhere there is a GFCI outlet. Even in '95 it was a RIVA requirement to have them for wet areas, that includes the exterior outlets. Look under the exterior outlet covers, in all the basement cabinets. They are insidious at the factories and like to hide things from the users, gives them a good laugh. "Hey Bubba, look I put the on/off switch for the basement lights behind the book shelf in the kitchen cabinet, they'll never find it there." Just kidding but it's there somewhere.
  • check in bathroom,or other outlets that are out for a ground fault button,red in color and try to reset that.
  • Look for an outlet like this somewhere in your rig (GFIC)..Try resetting it by pushing the button. It doesn't have to be the one you were plugged into.