electrical problem
Looking for suggestions: The situation is that I went to my camper today and found out that I did not have 120V into the camper. I found that my shore cable had a burnt spot on the female end of the...
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wnjj wrote:
OP direct wired around the connectors so they are no longer the issue.
As CA Travler said, the converter is likely just a heavy (normal) load that is highlighting a resistive connection. If you’re measuring the 75V at the wire nuts, the poor connection is between there and the park pedestal and not inside the RV. With connections poor enough to burn the connectors and cause outages, it’s likely you have other issues, ideally you would replace the shore cord or at least all of its connectors.
You are correct, I bypassed the female end of the shore power plug and the male end of the camper connector so that can't be the problem I'm thinking. Maybe it was the cause, but not anymore. Now, just to clarify, with all control panel CB's off, I measure 110 (actually 125) VAC at the hardwired connection outside the camper. Then, as a buddy turned the breakers on one at a time, I continued to measure 125VAC until the converter CB was turned on. At that point the voltage dropped to 75VAC at the hardwired connector and also on the inside receptacles.
Regarding the "trouble shooting" for the converter, where would I find such a thing?
