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Jetstreamer
Explorer
May 25, 2018

Something causing thermal battery breaker to pop

Just pulled the rig out of the barn today and parked it in the driveway. Plugged it into the 50 amp plug from the house and continued to finish leveling it with the landing gear. I noticed as I was ru...
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Artum_Snowbird
Explorer
May 25, 2018
The most notorious reason for a high load is a loose connection. That loose connection causes a huge resistance in the circuit. What used to run fine under a ten amp fuse now wants 20 amps. The connection heats up and corrodes some more, burning the wires.

Take a good negative to the load. If that fixes it, look at the negative line back to the battery. Same with the positive side.

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