Electrical - smoked up the cabin
I need a starting point. A couple weeks ago we were camping - battery went low so hooked up the generator. Ran for some time then I got a wife of hot wires. Turned off the generator - finished our ...
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Thanks for the reply -
Oh shoot I forgot to include the jacks in my tests - yes, I did test them and they all work as well. Together and individually.
The trouble initially started with just a short wiff of electrical smell while out camping. I had the generator running (not an onboard gen). I immediately shut it off. We did think we smelled it again a few hours later - but weren't certain. Either way, it was always brief.
When I got home, I removed the camper but had to run jacks one at a time because the jack switch (light) to enable the jacks kept shutting off when I'd run more than one jack at a time. One at a time though, worked.
I assumed this was due to a low battery? That's when I removed the battery to put it on my good charger and to test the battery (seems to be running low more quickly than it had in the past). Water levels were really low - filled them with d.water - but the charger kept throwing an error.
Ended up pulling my good agm out of my boat and putting it in the camper.. that's when I believe I reversed the cables (black to me is ground - lesson learned). And that's when the smoke poured out.
Now the solar panels show 18v out of the controller - seems way high to me. And I never tested them until today so not sure how they were before all of this, including the wire reversal. 18v is too high, isn't it?
Oh shoot I forgot to include the jacks in my tests - yes, I did test them and they all work as well. Together and individually.
The trouble initially started with just a short wiff of electrical smell while out camping. I had the generator running (not an onboard gen). I immediately shut it off. We did think we smelled it again a few hours later - but weren't certain. Either way, it was always brief.
When I got home, I removed the camper but had to run jacks one at a time because the jack switch (light) to enable the jacks kept shutting off when I'd run more than one jack at a time. One at a time though, worked.
I assumed this was due to a low battery? That's when I removed the battery to put it on my good charger and to test the battery (seems to be running low more quickly than it had in the past). Water levels were really low - filled them with d.water - but the charger kept throwing an error.
Ended up pulling my good agm out of my boat and putting it in the camper.. that's when I believe I reversed the cables (black to me is ground - lesson learned). And that's when the smoke poured out.
Now the solar panels show 18v out of the controller - seems way high to me. And I never tested them until today so not sure how they were before all of this, including the wire reversal. 18v is too high, isn't it?
