Power cord replacement w/pics
Things are looking a bit better after my original post about mice chewing my power cord - this is only a part of the damage:
I was having nightmares about the entire 110v system looking like this :-(
I always thought that the cord was stored in a small box pretending to be a narrow "end table" at the back of our 5er; so I was surprised to find this after taking the paneling off the side of the "table" (and destroying it and the corner trim pieces with it)
The "mouse hole" for the cord and the storage are actually BELOW the floor
So a previous reply to my first post was correct: the "tasty" insulated cord is expensive and the RV builder won't run it any farther than they have to. My biggest fear was that it entered the trailer, then ran under the floor, where the mice had clearly been; and it was decimated right up to the electric panel about 12' away :-(
The truth is that it comes into the junction box; then goes overhead from this point using "regular" wire. There was no sign that the mice had entered this box (and yes, we now there was some old water damage, probably from a leaking taillight. Since we have an aluminum-frame trailer - we're not too worried about it; and everything has been resealed).
So I'm assuming I should be able to cut the power cord where it comes through the floor; and wire it into a Marineco 30-amp power outlet installed inside this box, so we can utilize a detachable cord.
I'm not home free - there's a bunch of 12v wires coming up from below. I might be missing some tailights or marker lights; but now that I know the higher-voltage wire goes UP, not below, I think I'm feeling braver about not having this thing catch on fire....
I was having nightmares about the entire 110v system looking like this :-(
I always thought that the cord was stored in a small box pretending to be a narrow "end table" at the back of our 5er; so I was surprised to find this after taking the paneling off the side of the "table" (and destroying it and the corner trim pieces with it)
The "mouse hole" for the cord and the storage are actually BELOW the floor
So a previous reply to my first post was correct: the "tasty" insulated cord is expensive and the RV builder won't run it any farther than they have to. My biggest fear was that it entered the trailer, then ran under the floor, where the mice had clearly been; and it was decimated right up to the electric panel about 12' away :-(
The truth is that it comes into the junction box; then goes overhead from this point using "regular" wire. There was no sign that the mice had entered this box (and yes, we now there was some old water damage, probably from a leaking taillight. Since we have an aluminum-frame trailer - we're not too worried about it; and everything has been resealed).
So I'm assuming I should be able to cut the power cord where it comes through the floor; and wire it into a Marineco 30-amp power outlet installed inside this box, so we can utilize a detachable cord.
I'm not home free - there's a bunch of 12v wires coming up from below. I might be missing some tailights or marker lights; but now that I know the higher-voltage wire goes UP, not below, I think I'm feeling braver about not having this thing catch on fire....
