Converter Down
First post, Hello! Parallax Series 7300. 2004 Keystone Cougar 5th Wheel. I leave it plugged into the power pedestal on my property. There is 110 vac at the plug. We just went through a 2 day rain stor...
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BFL13 wrote:
" That wasn't 42 VAC out of the converter! That was 42 VAC at the cable end going into the converter."
Not understood. The 120v to the 7300 is not from a "cable" The converter input is a black wire and a white wire. the black goes to the bottom of a 120v circuit breaker above that on the AC panel, while the white wire goes over to the neutral buss with the other branch neutrals.
Where exactly did you have the two meter probes when seeing that 42 volts? Also does anything else 120v work, like the microwave, things plugged into the 120v receptacles?
The cable or cord I refer to is the black shore power cable I pull out of the back of the back of the 5th wheel and plug into shore power. The cable does terminate at and connect to the converter AC input.
Once again sorry for the confusion about saying it was "42 vac out of the converter" when I meant "in". I measured 42 vac, with the black (hot) cable wire disconnected from the converter and ground. Also measured 42 vac between the disconnected black wire and the white (neutral). Did not try the microwave, fridge or outlets. As I said, I connected the male plug end of the cable to an independent 120 vac source and the converter fan started and the 120 vac lights came on. Now looking at a pedestal problem but no roof leak problem (thank God).
P.S. the water on the counter was from an open window (duh). It had nothing to do with the converter shutdown.
