No power on one leg.
I received a 1986 Beaver Continental from my parents just a few months ago. Everything is awesome except there is no power to one of the legs when plugged in. However! I did have power when plugged...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
A techie would strongly have tended to not have posted the question at all. It was not meant as a putdown. Techies tend to be nerds. Some folks take insult to that term.
I am sensitized to the issue of electric and chemical safety. I have witnessed three deaths by electrocutionand frankly the horror will haunt me to my last breath. As a sideline I autopsied four RVs for Good Sam and ended up as an expert on the witness stand twice in L.A. Superior Court. One rig burned tothe ground and melted the asphalt at the east CA 120 entrance to Yosemite Park. Everything including the wheels melted. Not a clue remained and I had to refuse examinatuon on the spot.
So yeah I'm a little touchy about things like fire, explosion, going blind and being scarred for life in a battery explosion. When a person fails to revive an electrocuted neighbor who baked them a mango pie or seeing what remained of a high tension worker after they failed to test their induction tester before entering a 115kv danger zone, a person can get skittish. I do not like to see people get hurt never mind die because of lack of experience coupled with incomplete "advice" from otherwise well-meaning people.
Any electrician any battery techie with 50-years behind them has accumulated experiences they would rather not talk about.
There is a world of difference between user risk at home versus an RV.
When building or repairing a yacht or commercial vessel a double breaker 120 service is mandatory. It is so easy to provide this protection.
With concrete meeting earth and slabbed with tile double breakers are de rigueur down here.
A 30-amp double and 50-amp triple breaker is easy to work with. A Klixon breaker uses screw terminals not clips. When one pole faults ALL the poles fault.
I can only hope this helps...
You said its normal to lose a leg with a 30A adapter which is totally wrong.
Being a EE doesn't impress. As an Elec Tech that fabricated three phase 1600A 52VDC battery chargers that were parallel capable, worked with around 300 EE's,
Many of them I wouldn't let change my flat tire.
