Can not keep power going to house
We bought this 1995 Fleetwood jamboree a few weeks ago. Plugged it in at home and it worked fine, AC and everything. Then the breaker tripped repeatedly. Our neighbor, who is an electrician, put a ne...
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wa8yxm wrote:
You said several things and failed to say one thing.
You said you had an electrician install something
You said it trips the breaker in the house
You did not say GFCI..
By code, an outdoor outlet (up to 20 amps) must be GFCI protected and in some places a 30 amp as well.. So far 50 amps' need not be GFCI.
IS THE BREAKER IN THE HOUSE a GFCI.. if so it will have a button marked TEST on it. pressing this button will trip it.
Many RV's do not play nice with GFCI outlets. there are many reasons for this, sometimes it is the converter, Some will trip a GFCI if the batteries are low, Others when they are full up, others any time, others never.
Other times the problem is somewhere else.
This is what I said in my original post. "Our neighbor, who is an electrician, put a new plug on the cable because it was fraying some." This plug I purchased at Lowes. Could that have been an incorrect plug? The breaker in our house does have the test button. Will check the outlet tomorrow.
