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love4god
Explorer
May 17, 2015

Need some help, shore power tripping breaker/buzzing

My fifth wheel has been sitting all winter and I just pulled it out to set it up for some friends who are staying over for the weekend. We cleaned it out, plugged it in, everything was fine. Then ...
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westend
Explorer
May 18, 2015
Yup, your cord has a short in it or some part of the copper strands could be touching in the connector body. You may have some continuity from line (+) to neutral if a device is connected in a receptacle but you should have no continuity from neutral to ground or line (+) to ground as these are isolated in an RV in the former and should be isolated in the latter (unless you have a bad device connected in a receptacle).

The chewing mouse theory is gaining ground....

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