Blown 30 amp battery fuse and no power
Hi all Having some weird power issues because I decided to try and sell my TT. Here's a run down: While camping this summer, we moved from a powered site to a no power site. Upon arrival at unpowe...
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WFCO Converter model WF-8955PEC, panel input 30A.
We crawled around and found no worn wires but wrapped electrical tape on brackets and wires anyway and there did seem to be a short somewhere as this stopped the 30amp fuse from blowing immediately - which it did do before taping stuff. And when connected on Shore power everything was working again ( battery positive wire was disconnected from converter). There are no other circuit protections between fuse after battery and panel.
So then we were able to check the output (as suggested above) and it was 13.6VDC, just like the panel says.
We disconnected AC, reconnected +ve wire to converter and pulled battery connect switch and fuse blew.
Does that sound like converter going kaput? My experience of them going is nil as this is my first and only ever trailer and after seven years, this is first experience of bad power issues and mysteries.
Thank you all for your suggestions! We feel like we eliminated one or two things tonight. But I did lose the back off an earring. ;)
We crawled around and found no worn wires but wrapped electrical tape on brackets and wires anyway and there did seem to be a short somewhere as this stopped the 30amp fuse from blowing immediately - which it did do before taping stuff. And when connected on Shore power everything was working again ( battery positive wire was disconnected from converter). There are no other circuit protections between fuse after battery and panel.
So then we were able to check the output (as suggested above) and it was 13.6VDC, just like the panel says.
We disconnected AC, reconnected +ve wire to converter and pulled battery connect switch and fuse blew.
Does that sound like converter going kaput? My experience of them going is nil as this is my first and only ever trailer and after seven years, this is first experience of bad power issues and mysteries.
Thank you all for your suggestions! We feel like we eliminated one or two things tonight. But I did lose the back off an earring. ;)
