Only getting 30A indicated on 50A connection
I recently bought a 2009 Bounder 35H, it has 50A service via an Intellitec Smart EMS, model 900. I had my electrician (licensed, bonded, experienced, has been doing work for my family for many yea...
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enblethen wrote:
The EMS directions say to connect on buss not on branch breaker. I do not know why the rig's manufacturer would not install per Intellitec's instructions. This would void their warranty.
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Page 8 of the manual (Intellitec P/N 53-00894-600), seems to say the opposite?
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To insure [sic] proper operation of the source sensing circuitry on the 50 AMP EMS Model 700 [sic; this is titled as the 900 manual], jumper wires must always be connected from a Line 1 breaker to J6 terminal 3 and from a Line 2 breaker to J6 terminal 1. These connections must be made even though Relay 1 or Relay 2 may no be used for controlled loads.
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On P. 14, section VIX (troubleshooting), it explains that 120VAC has to be present at J6-1 and J6-3 so that 240V measures between them, and that that's how the EMS determines it has 50 amp service.
It sounds like Fleetwood installed it according to the instructions.
Caveats: I'm not an electrician or an electrical engineer, but I am a software engineer (for some value of engineer; my academic background is in linguistics, but I've always made my living in IT) and a fair hand at both reading and writing technical documentation, so while I think my reading is correct, the fact that I'm not an EE could also mean that it isn't :-)
