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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wolfe10 wrote:Cajun Bill wrote:
Turns out their ground on the top of the spot pole was corroded which made the voltage in the trailer swing from 0 VAC to 75 VAC to 125 VAC to 175VAC. (Yikes!!) I could literally sit and watch the volt meter continually swing with nothing going on at all, then the voltage would stabilize at 125 VAC and as soon as we put any load on the circuit, the voltage would drop down to 0 VAC then when we took the load off, it would shoot up to 175 VAC and bounce as if it was trying to go higher.
Actually, it was a bad connection on the NEUTRAL that caused the wide fluctuations in voltage.
Okay, maybe so, but I'm wondering if anyone can help me with something else concerting this issue: When I was chasing the rabbit from the camper control panel back to the pole, I could not find where the wire coming from the plug in connector on the side of the camper (the connector that the shore cable plugs into) connects to the heavy wires that feed the control panel. I know there is a connection point somewhere because the wire feeding the shore cable plug in is a solid orange romex #10 that goes up into the wall from where it connects to the shore cable. And the wires that feed the control panel are stranded #8 0r #6 and are red and white. Anyone have any idea how/where these end up being connected? The only near electrical device is a 110V outlet that I could figure out how to access because it has no outside screws. If the connection is not there, it must then go into the roof and cross over somewhere, maybe behind the fridge or something. Any ideas anyone? The camper is a 26DBH Grey Wolf.
