woodtrucker wrote:
I have discovered one other thing that might explain. From the positive terminal, one wire goes into camper, another wire is route outside the bottom of camper almost all the way to rear bumper and its cut and taped. Have no clue what it went to but it routes over one of the crossmembers and is pinched. Looks like it may have worn insulation off and that could possibly have created a ground condition for the + terminal snd caused dead short. It is a huge wire. Any clue what this would have routed to? Really strange b/c its the same guage wire that is routed into camper. I'm 99% sure this wire is grounding out! Wierd...
OK how big a round is that wire? Is it the same big size that hooks to the battery? Outside of the insulation is about 3/16 to 1/4"
Once you find the big dead short... it will leave tracks, real bad burnt installation, black flash spatter all over and if you sniff, the smell of burnt electrical will ring in your head for sure.
Does that wire look like a factory install or real bad after thought by a prior owner?
Not knowing what kind of camper this is even... An extra heavy wire way to the back was someone wild bad attempt to power up an inverter, maybe.
If you have a slide system, they often run a no 10 awg from the battery area to the slide switch and then to the motor. But taping it off if not normally a factory thing.
Keep hunting, you keep turning up more wrong things....
