ELECTRICAL PROBLEM

Lobstah wrote:

coolcity wrote:

Lobstah wrote:
If you had power to your 12V systems, and then it slowly died over a period of a few hours, I would start with the CONVERTER output. You could have a tripped breaker on the converter, or you could have a tripped GFI circuit (usually on plug in bathroom or kitchen, hit RESET button) and the CONVERTER is usually plugged into a GFI circuit.

Jim

I doubt a inverter/converter would be pluged into any GFI outlet thats not how their wired or work however if u tripped the reset breaker on the inverter/converter it would likely not charge the batterys and is most likely the problem the more i think about it

Not how they're wired or work? That's exactly how mine is wired. My converter is mounted on the floor, under the drawers in the kitchen. I had a problem with an outlet in one of my basement bins that kept the GFI from resetting. When I ran an extension cord from a non-GFI outlet to my converter, it worked fine. I ended up tracing the entire GFI leg to find the bad outlet.
And I'll bet mine isn't the only one wired that way, since many rigs have converters mounted on the floor in a cabinet somewhere.

Jim

Read my post I said "inverter/converter" not a simple converter.For some reason I never ever considered that we were talking about a simple plug in converter and for some reason i have assumed seeing as the OP has 50 amp service that he has the standard style DP inverter/converter which are hard wired from main breaker panel with two in and two out 20 amp circuts and not a simple plug and play converter which could be as u say blown breaker that feeds the plug in for the converter and or a blown 30 amp fuse located on the converter.Two entirely different systems

coolcity wrote:

Lobstah wrote:
If you had power to your 12V systems, and then it slowly died over a period of a few hours, I would start with the CONVERTER output. You could have a tripped breaker on the converter, or you could have a tripped GFI circuit (usually on plug in bathroom or kitchen, hit RESET button) and the CONVERTER is usually plugged into a GFI circuit.

Jim

I doubt a inverter/converter would be pluged into any GFI outlet thats not how their wired or work however if u tripped the reset breaker on the inverter/converter it would likely not charge the batterys and is most likely the problem the more i think about it

Not how they're wired or work? That's exactly how mine is wired. My converter is mounted on the floor, under the drawers in the kitchen. I had a problem with an outlet in one of my basement bins that kept the GFI from resetting. When I ran an extension cord from a non-GFI outlet to my converter, it worked fine. I ended up tracing the entire GFI leg to find the bad outlet.
And I'll bet mine isn't the only one wired that way, since many rigs have converters mounted on the floor in a cabinet somewhere.

Jim

YC 1 wrote:
The inverter may be seeing your engine batteries and they are full, thus showing full on the panel.

Did you change the batteries yourself ? I will assume you bought 6 volt replacements if the old ones were 6 volt. If you have a bank of four as on my HR/Monaco, there are several wires and it would be easy to have dropped the charge wire off by accident.

If you have a voltmeter, check each bank. The engine batteries probably will show 13.5 or more if the converter is still working properly. If not, shut off shoreline and shut both banks of batteries off. Turn things on and test again,. If no joy, look closely at the Converter/Charger to see if there is a small reset button.

droped the charge wire off?? the charge wire is like a #2 1/2 thick battery cable?Like i said in my last post most likely need to reset the inverter reset button

You might have gotten a bad battery. Or you hooked them up wrong.

The inverter may be seeing your engine batteries and they are full, thus showing full on the panel.

Did you change the batteries yourself ? I will assume you bought 6 volt replacements if the old ones were 6 volt. If you have a bank of four as on my HR/Monaco, there are several wires and it would be easy to have dropped the charge wire off by accident.

If you have a voltmeter, check each bank. The engine batteries probably will show 13.5 or more if the converter is still working properly. If not, shut off shoreline and shut both banks of batteries off. Turn things on and test again,. If no joy, look closely at the Converter/Charger to see if there is a small reset button.

Lobstah wrote:
If you had power to your 12V systems, and then it slowly died over a period of a few hours, I would start with the CONVERTER output. You could have a tripped breaker on the converter, or you could have a tripped GFI circuit (usually on plug in bathroom or kitchen, hit RESET button) and the CONVERTER is usually plugged into a GFI circuit.

Jim

I doubt a inverter/converter would be pluged into any GFI outlet thats not how their wired or work however if u tripped the reset breaker on the inverter/converter it would likely not charge the batterys and is most likely the problem the more i think about it

If you had power to your 12V systems, and then it slowly died over a period of a few hours, I would start with the CONVERTER output. You could have a tripped breaker on the converter, or you could have a tripped GFI circuit (usually on plug in bathroom or kitchen, hit RESET button) and the CONVERTER is usually plugged into a GFI circuit.

Jim

Do you have separate Inverter and house batteries? Are they all tied together?

CHECK THE BATTERY VOLTAGE. CHECK THE CHARGER OUTPUT VOLTAGE.

I THINK YOU MAY HAVE AN OPEN CIRCUIT BETWEEN THE CHARGING SYSTEM AND THE BATTERIES.

Did you take a picture of the connections before changing out the batteries? If not, do you have a diagram from the manufacture on how they should be connected? Sounds like you've got something hooked up backwards.

Typing in ALL CAPS is like shouting at us on the forum.

Barb