Got back today to find all the 12-volt living area lights are out, and so is the refrigerator. The 12-volt plugs work, and the water pump works. There are only about 6 fuses and they look okay.Dry camping. No generator on. 1987 Fleetwood Bounder motorhome. Ideas?

While it is likely the power feeds out to your lights and refrigerator are on separate circuits, back almost 30 years ago, who knows.But it is more likely your return wires that may be loose. Start by putting your screwdriver on each and every wire that is not on the fuse box, but is on the return terminal strip, tighten the screw terminal, then pull the wire to see it is secure. Then do the same for each and every wire connected to the fuses on both sides. If that doesn't fix it, you will have to go to your fridge and figure out whether it's the power feed or the return feed that isn't working. PM me for help.mike

What do you mean by 12 Volt Plugs? All the electrical Outlets are 115 Volts!

Fuses look OK ?Did you test each fuse, fuse position or just look at them. Looks can be deceiving. Need to test that 12V is at each fuse and goes thru each fuse.

I had the same problem with my 87 Southwind and it was the GFCI outlet located in the bathroom. It was tripped and had killed all the power to every 120v outlet, refrigerator, etc. I pressed the reset button and everything went back to work. Mine tripped because my grandson plugged an electric tire pump into the outside outlet which turned out to have problems with the 120 to 12 volt adapter.

Without a hand-held meter or a test light go to the closet and drag out your Ouija Board.No slide-out?OK In desperation....Drag your car's battery inside. Connect 2 wires to the battery. Making damned sure you don't get positive and negative reversed, CAREFULLY touch the ends of the jumper wires to the socket where you removed a bulb.SPARKS! You have a short.POSSUM! None of the other dead lights or refrigerator light up. You have a cut wire or bad connection somewhere. This includes a trunk ground wire for that circuit.The symptoms as you describe them shout FUSE! so bad it isn't funny. But you claim you "checked" them.But without you having a three dollar test light or four dollar electrical meter this is like playing a video game blindfolded.Best of luck to you...

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robatthelake
Explorer
Aug 06, 2014
What do you mean by 12 Volt Plugs? All the electrical Outlets are 115 Volts!
Artum_Snowbird
Explorer
Aug 06, 2014
While it is likely the power feeds out to your lights and refrigerator are on separate circuits, back almost 30 years ago, who knows.

But it is more likely your return wires that may be loose. Start by putting your screwdriver on each and every wire that is not on the fuse box, but is on the return terminal strip, tighten the screw terminal, then pull the wire to see it is secure. Then do the same for each and every wire connected to the fuses on both sides.

If that doesn't fix it, you will have to go to your fridge and figure out whether it's the power feed or the return feed that isn't working. PM me for help.

mike

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