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mfitz709
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Oct 24, 2017

electrical problem Help

Our coach all of a sudden loses land power for no reason and then in a few minutes comes back on! Not a breaker, I've looked for a short with no luck. Any ideas would be welcome, has this ever happened to anyone?
It kind of messes up our camping. Help please.
  • Drew its 120 volts at the house. Even when plugged in to 50 amp service it does the same..
  • Is this 12V power (lights and stuff) or 120V power?

    If it's 12V power, possibly there's a self-resetting circuit breaker that's cycling either from an overload or because it's old and worn out.
  • mfitz709 wrote:
    Not a breaker, I've looked for a short with no luck.


    Not a breaker tripping but maybe one going bad.
    You NEED a meter to find out exactly where the power is disappearing.

    It would not be a short you are looking for but an intermittent OPEN, a bad connection somewhere.

    But if you have a power management system, the previous post applies. I would think/hope that if that was the problem that that system would make some alarms or light some warning lights.
  • Sounds like you may have a electrical management system that is sensing a bad current source and is shutting it down to protect your RV. The EMS could also be bad. Or, you could have a bad transfer switch.