Emergency Electrical Help Please !
Just leaving for a trip and something electrical is happening. I was plugged into shore power and running the AC to cool down the coach. I was planning on unplugging and converting to generator so i s...
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McKenziek wrote:
I also have no lights inside the coach. I checked all resettable breakers and nothing seems to help.
Any suggestions on trouble shooting would be helpful
2005 Monaco diplomat
Most lights in RVs are 12 volt and would be on a fuse rather than a breaker. If your battery is charged and no fuses are blown, your lights should work, whether or not you are plugged into shore power.
If your battery is low or discharged and your lights don't work, I would say you may have a bad converter. OTOH, if your transfer switch is stuck with both sides of the system disconnected, it could prevent the AC power from being accessible via shore power or genny. That would also prevent your converter from providing 12V power to the lights.
First thing to check is whether there is power at the AC outlet your coach is plugged into (or at the genny output). If there is, but no AC power is available in the coach, check for 120V at the transfer switch. If there is no power there, there is a break in the circuit between the power source and the transfer switch. If there is power at the transfer switch but not at the breaker panel, I would say your transfer switch is faulty.
Good luck with this problem. There's nothing quite as frustrating as technology that doesn't work as expected.
