Electrical Issue?
We have our Cedar Creek parked in front of the house for loading for a trip. Our driveway is too steep to get the fiver up near the house, so it is parked on the street. We have a 100 ft extension cord that we run from a standard house outlet (15 amp) down to the coach just to run the converter and charge the battery.
We also have the Progressive EMS-HW50C installed on the coach.
(http://www.progressiveindustries.net/ems_hw50c.htm)
The EMS starting cutting off the power as soon as I plugged into the home outlet. The EMS is claiming low voltage on line 1. I have not had this problem before. When I switch off the 20 amp breaker inside the coach that relates to the converter, kitchen GFI and fireplace, the low voltage error message goes away and the EMS shows the voltage from line 1 to be within normal ranges.
Why is shutting off that breaker eliminating my low voltage problem?
The only thing wired to that 20 amp coach breaker that should be drawing power is the converter. Anything else in the coach that might be drawing power from that 20 amp circuit has been turned off. The power draw from the converter should be well within the capacity of the 15 amp house circuit, which has nothing else drawing power from it.
Furthermore, my understanding is that the EMS just reads the voltage coming into the coach. If the voltage is low it just shuts off the power to protect the electronics. We have had this happen at a few campgrounds.
Why would the voltage readings changes just because the breaker has be turned on?
Thanks for any ideas.
We also have the Progressive EMS-HW50C installed on the coach.
(http://www.progressiveindustries.net/ems_hw50c.htm)
The EMS starting cutting off the power as soon as I plugged into the home outlet. The EMS is claiming low voltage on line 1. I have not had this problem before. When I switch off the 20 amp breaker inside the coach that relates to the converter, kitchen GFI and fireplace, the low voltage error message goes away and the EMS shows the voltage from line 1 to be within normal ranges.
Why is shutting off that breaker eliminating my low voltage problem?
The only thing wired to that 20 amp coach breaker that should be drawing power is the converter. Anything else in the coach that might be drawing power from that 20 amp circuit has been turned off. The power draw from the converter should be well within the capacity of the 15 amp house circuit, which has nothing else drawing power from it.
Furthermore, my understanding is that the EMS just reads the voltage coming into the coach. If the voltage is low it just shuts off the power to protect the electronics. We have had this happen at a few campgrounds.
Why would the voltage readings changes just because the breaker has be turned on?
Thanks for any ideas.
