No good deed goes unpunished
Here's the story. I had a friend ask me to come over and look at why his battery was not charging. He has a 2012 model travel trailer. He was plugged into shore power at his home so I just popped off ...
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Gdetrailer wrote:ken56 wrote:
Alright people. I posted this for education purposes and not to bash my friend, and yes we are still friends. In order for me to answer my own question I will have to go over and look at the wiring again to see if they pass through the circuit breakers on the tongue. I could very well have been wrong so if this can be used by others to help them understand things then great.
There should be a small metal cased autoreseting breaker mounted close to the battery(ies) on the tongue of the trailer.
Should look like this..
That is basically a "catastrophe" breaker in case the wiring to the converter/fuse panel were to develop a short circuit. Basically there to protect you from ending up setting your rig on fire in the event the wire shorts to ground.
Manufacturers must include a fuse or breaker within 18" of the battery.
These are typically mounted to the A frame on the inside and may be under the battery tray.
They are open to weather and are not really designed for or sealed and over time suffer weather related damage..
The breaker should auto reset after any over current event provided the high current draw is removed and or voltage is removed from the breaker.
Thank you and yes, that is what my friend also replaced when he did the new converter. It is correct that I did not participate in his work changing out the converter and breakers so I do not know exactly what he did...I assumed it was only the replacing of the converter an breakers...that's all. The question I posed was does the converter current to charge the battery pass through any of those breakers on its way to the battery? If it does then it would/could stop the charging current to the battery and it may not have been a bad converter.
