Strange Electrical Issues
I have a 2005 Crossroads Cruiser 28RL that I full time in. Today, I noticed the refrigerator pilot was trying to light repeatedly while on AC power. I checked the voltage at the refrigerator and it fl...
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These kind of problems are hard to diagnose without being there.
One thing I would try is to shut the breaker off supplying the fridge circuit. Then take a hair dryer or other appliance with high wattage element and plug into all the other receptacles and see if the voltage drops much. If it doesn't change much, that narrows the cause down to the breaker supplying the fridge circuit and anything downstream from it.
I would shut off breakers one at a time and figure out exactly which receptacles on are the fridge circuit. Sometimes the factories do a lousy job of connections inside the SCD RV type of receptacles. They employ "tabs" that get the wires pushed down into them. There is a correct tool for this but sometimes one or more wires can barely be hanging on and make a bad connection. When you have determined which recepts. are on the fridge circuit, pull them out one by one and remove the covers (power off of course) and inspect the connections.
I don't think it would be a defective breaker but that's not impossible. You *might* have a wire that wasn't properly connected at the breaker. I found one that was completely loose.
When you do find the problem and fix it, don't forget to report back! ;)
One thing I would try is to shut the breaker off supplying the fridge circuit. Then take a hair dryer or other appliance with high wattage element and plug into all the other receptacles and see if the voltage drops much. If it doesn't change much, that narrows the cause down to the breaker supplying the fridge circuit and anything downstream from it.
I would shut off breakers one at a time and figure out exactly which receptacles on are the fridge circuit. Sometimes the factories do a lousy job of connections inside the SCD RV type of receptacles. They employ "tabs" that get the wires pushed down into them. There is a correct tool for this but sometimes one or more wires can barely be hanging on and make a bad connection. When you have determined which recepts. are on the fridge circuit, pull them out one by one and remove the covers (power off of course) and inspect the connections.
I don't think it would be a defective breaker but that's not impossible. You *might* have a wire that wasn't properly connected at the breaker. I found one that was completely loose.
When you do find the problem and fix it, don't forget to report back! ;)
