DC Voltage issues
I have a 2006 Forest River Sandpiper that I've owned from New. Dealing with a slow slide out motor, and pulled the belly down to get at the motor to check electrical connections. Checked voltage at battery while operating slide and the battery went from 13.47 down to 13.2. Seemed pretty reasonable to me, so moved onto the other end.
After redoing the connections at the motor (found some corrosion in the electric nuts) checked the voltage at the motor connections and was seeing voltage drops down to 8 volts with the slide running. Knowing that this is an issue, I checked voltages in the fuse box by touching the ground lug and the power lugs under the automotive style fuses. I was seeing numbers in the range of 10 to 11 volts. I expected that these would read the same as the battery. I have two heavy cables connecting to the fuse board, one red (from battery, I'm assuming) and a white one (from shore power/converter, I assume) The white was reading 13.47, I don't recall what the red one read. Plan to do more checking tomorrow, maybe pull the slide switch and check voltage there as well as see if there are any other connections in that line.
This has me a bit stumped. Anyone have any ideas on why I'm seeing voltage drops like this? Especially at the fuse panel?
Ideas?
After redoing the connections at the motor (found some corrosion in the electric nuts) checked the voltage at the motor connections and was seeing voltage drops down to 8 volts with the slide running. Knowing that this is an issue, I checked voltages in the fuse box by touching the ground lug and the power lugs under the automotive style fuses. I was seeing numbers in the range of 10 to 11 volts. I expected that these would read the same as the battery. I have two heavy cables connecting to the fuse board, one red (from battery, I'm assuming) and a white one (from shore power/converter, I assume) The white was reading 13.47, I don't recall what the red one read. Plan to do more checking tomorrow, maybe pull the slide switch and check voltage there as well as see if there are any other connections in that line.
This has me a bit stumped. Anyone have any ideas on why I'm seeing voltage drops like this? Especially at the fuse panel?
Ideas?
