(seeking advice) Furnace Wiring Burning up!
** WE FIXED THIS ISSUE!!! I WISH THERE WERE A WAY TO THANK EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HELPED WITH THIS ISSUE!!! Here is the fix. The previous owner built the battery/solar system without a camper chassis...
Forum Discussion
DrewE wrote:
I predict that if you remove the furnace (and its ground wire), nothing electrical will work anymore--or, at least, some things electrical will not work. It shouldn't be that way, but it sure looks like your chassis ground/negative return is all going through that wire. Remove it and you don't have a circuit and your stuff can't run.
You would also need to safely cap off the propane connection to the furnace.
Just got a cap today. Still himming and hawing over trying again....Everything still works with the furnace out...even with the trailer cable unplugged (so only running from camper battery)....which makes me think everything in the camper is grounded through the camper battery (until I plug the trailer cable back into it, and then it grounds through the truck chassis)
The camper battery is NOT grounded to the camper chassis, but the propane tube leading to the furnace is grounded to the camper chassis....So when the trailer cable was removed, everything in the camper was pumping out from the battery, then trying to ground to the propane tube into the camper chassis, which never leads back to the battery, which causes the smallest wire in the system to smoke up.
All this aside, I am curious... Does the thermostat and the board (Dinosaur Electronic 50 Pin Plus fan) of the furnace have polarity? I am 99% sure I didnt mix up the polarity of the thermostat, but maybe that could be my problem too. I'm betting on my grounding issue though.
