low voltage in receptacle
I had a power strip catch on fire..Nothing was plugged into it but the strip was turned on...lucky I was in the rv when it happened or all would have gone up in flames...It tripped all gfi and a circu...
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Budsmith wrote:
I had a power strip catch on fire..Nothing was plugged into it but the strip was turned on...lucky I was in the rv when it happened or all would have gone up in flames...It tripped all gfi and a circuit breaker..It also blew out my convertor...Now on the receps at the refrig and convertor shows 41 volts...The fridge went to gas and I am afraid to plug it back up to see if it works on elec...Why do I have 41 volts on those two recept?? Thanks for any replys
Really strange comments above :(
Perhaps you had plugged in the shore power to 240v instead of 120v? Or you got 240v by having two sources of 120 at the same time? A transfer switch is supposed to prevent that. Did it not?
Use your multimeter on 120v (the 200v setting on the dial) to check the pedestal for 120v where the shore power is connected. What other 120v source might be on at the same time -- inverter? generator?
Yes do not plug back in until you get this solved. 12v and propane should get you by for a day or two same as being off -grid.
