Electrical question on AF1140

First off, if you tripped your breaker 10 times you have a problem.

Secondly, if it's your slide side of the camper that has no power, open the slide half way out and lay on the floor, on your back partially under the slide. There is a plug under the table that might have come undone, (ask me how I know). You can access it this way....on second thought that was for the DC circuits on that side of the camper....

Not sure what circuit you are referring to, but check the "load side" of the gfi in the bathroom and over the sink. If you tripped your breaker that many times and had a problem resetting it, you could have damaged one of the gfi receptacles.

Good Luck

Rick

What is a gp2 or gp1? You are saying, I think, that half your receptacles are not powered. Plugs are a two or three pronged male end for a cord.

Have you looked outside for an external GFCI? It may also be in the bathroom area or anywhere close to a water supply.

Artum Snowbird wrote:

What you should do is turn off the main power, and then take a screwdriver and tighten each hot wire on the breakers, and each and every white wire on the return buss.

Done, everything is good and tight in the breaker box.

Got hold of Northwoods (maker of of Arctic Fox) tech line. They say there is one GFI plug to do both circuits. Not sure how that is possible. Can anyone confirm that a gfi plug can protect anything on a separate breaker?

I have verified I have power coming out the new breaker. Chasing the wire to its next stop is proving difficult. Wish I had a wiring diagram.......

If you put in a new breaker, then turned it on, and it stayed on, then the power could be coming trough the breaker and out to all your devices.

What may very well have happened is the return wire, yes that white wire that comes back from all your devices, may be loose or burned off in it's place on the white wire buss in the breaker panel.

What you should do is turn off the main power, and then take a screwdriver and tighten each hot wire on the breakers, and each and every white wire on the return buss.

If you can identify the cable that feeds out off the breaker itself, then follow the white wire back to the buss and see if it's loose.

Once the wire heats under usage, then cools, it looses it's grip under the wire tie down screw. This looseness causes a hotspot, and heat takes current from the circuit. This then makes the breaker trip out. Each time you reset it, the resulting heat makes the connection come a bit looser. After a while, the connection has come so loose that there is no connection at all.