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tambo1973
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Aug 01, 2014

Only half my electrical outlets work

I have a 2010 Cougar Keystone 29FKS. Yesterday, out of the clear blue sky, my TV and satellite box just shut off. I checked all my breakers...everything seemed fine. Then I noticed my alarm clock in the bedroom area was off...come to find out the 2 outlets in the bedroom area and the 2 outlets on the wall next to the bathroom no longer work; however the GFCI outlet in the bathroom between the living room area and the bedroom area works. Any ideas? I live in this full time...I work in the oilfields in North Dakota and need everything operational as much as possible!

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  • You may want to check for an additional GFCI device in back of the fridge, in the bathroom, under/over the kitchen counter, or on the exterior of the trailer (near an outside kitchen).
  • Did you check the ckt breaker on the inverter? Some of your ckts run through the inverter, not the main breaker panel.
  • Um, yes, I turned the breakers on/off (sorry I wasn't more explicit when I said I checked them). I've searched high and low for a second GFCI...haven't found one...so I guess my next thing is to check for the loose wires, specifically on the outlets I'm having trouble with. Thanks...I was afraid I had to do that, although it's much better for ME to do that than to have to pay an astronomical price to someone else to do the same thing.
  • When you 'checked all my breakers...everything seemed fine'--how did you check them?

    Did you turn them to OFF and then reset back to ON?

    Also.......check the wires on breaker and make sure they are tight/making good contact.

    And you might look around for another GFCI outlet.....check if tripped.

    Tripped GFCIs, tripped circuit breakers, loose wire on breaker AND one other possibility.
    A loose wire in an outlet upstream of those that aren't working. Requires identifying the suspect outlet....pulling it and checking the wires for proper connections.
    RV outlets are cheap design.....they use a split-prong that the wires clip/push into vs hardwired/screwed or even a good push contact like residential outlets.

    They wire the outlets in a daisy chain string..if wire works loose (easy to do) then all outlets downstream stop working.

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