smoking converter
The breakers in our 2000 Fleetwood Terry blew the other night after we heard a buzzing sound and saw the lights flickering. Turns out the converter shorted out (we saw smoke). Once we unplugged it t...
Forum Discussion
vickish1 wrote:
This is crazy, but we never could find a battery anywhere in the RV. We had planned on just plugging in and living in it while we build. So didn't worry too much about it
The battery should be on trailer tongue behind the propane cylinders.
First Off....you need that battery to provide power to trailer brakes via 'emergency brake switch' when towing in the event trailer becomes disconnected from tow vehicle.......you are illegal and unsafe towing without a good functioning trailer battery.
Secondly.trailer battery provides all 12V DC power when not connected to shore power.
With a smoked converter you have no 12v DC to operate control circuits for fridge, A/C-Furnace t-stat, lights, water pump etc.
And your converter may have needed a battery to act as a load.
Get a battery......make sure you connect it up properly. Trace cable to trailer frame.that is battery neg.cable. Color of cables is not standard so check first.
Then you need a new converter.........and a portable charger in the mean time to keep tha new battery charged.
