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74vette
Explorer
Feb 03, 2014

Anyone with a Boondocker BPC4-60 Converter

I replaced an old converter with a Boondocker BPC4-60 power center last week. Everything was great until this morning when I had no charging to the batteries while hooked to shore power. I still Have full AC in the trailer but all DC is running off the batteries. I have checked all fuses and connections. Could I have a bad converter? I do show the solar charging. The previous charge rate when the converter was working was 13.7. My batteries were at 12.4 this morning while on shore power. Any suggestions, this is the same problem I experienced with my old converter except it smelled, smoked and sparked when it quit. We are currently in a place my phone does not work.

Thanks,
  • BFL13's avatar
    BFL13
    Explorer II
    Feb 03, 2014
    My PowerMax converter has a 120v glass fuse right by where the 120v wires come in on the circuit board

    Important to locate converter output.

    I am going by how a 7355 is, not familiar with those two units, but I would be checking the actual converter output wires for DC. That would tell whether it is the converter itself or downstream at the DC panel or battery lugs area. The converter wires should be going into the DC panel, maybe at the back of the 'battery lugs' where the wires up from the battery go on the front side of the panel.

    The converter itself has some self-protection like for overheating etc. Perhaps it has shut itself down until whatever is wrong gets fixed.
  • 74vette's avatar
    74vette
    Explorer
    Feb 03, 2014
    The converter is hard wired and I have AC coming in to the unit but nothing crossing over to the DC side. I have checked all breakers and fuses. It is just not providing power to the dc charging side. The old unit was a American CS6000XL 60 amp unit.
  • BFL13's avatar
    BFL13
    Explorer II
    Feb 03, 2014
    Check 120v input side. If the converter is a plug-in, check its receptacle. If no 120 there, it could be the receptacle's internal wiring, the circuit breaker for that receptacle, or that receptacle might be on a GFCI string where the GFCI has popped for some reason.

    If the old converter 120 input was hard wired like a Parallax 7300 or 6300 and the new one is a plug in, check how you adapted that where your own wiring might have come undone.

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