No power getting to my Angler 8C, 2001
Hope everyone is having a good year so far. The problem is that when it is plugged in to "my house" or the generator, it throws the GFI, in my house or generator. It does not trip any of the breakers ...
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StirCrazy wrote:sapperb wrote:StirCrazy wrote:
by the looks of that old converter, you should be thinking of upgrading it anyways and if it is causing issues its a good time to do it. THIS one is a direct swap for just the converter section. If you want to do what I did you could get a whole new power centre and get the modern filtered DC and such but they are not always the same size as the old Magnetek and you pretty much have to rewire everything. you could look at the PD4645, or PD4655 depending if you want a bit higher output for charging or not.
Steve
StirCrazy,
Thank you. If you said re-wire everything, that is way above my skill level. I have been talking to my buddy that does all my electrical on my vehicles. He has a crazy busy schedule, but he will come an look at it.
Bruce
ya I did the second option in my 1991 camper, and it was a bit of a pain... had to make the hole bigger, make new supports, transfer all the 12V circuits over, make a new ground bar and on and on... wasn't hard, just long and tedious. If all you're doing is the converter section, it's fast and easy, undo the 120V supply to it, and the 12V output. couple screws and it pulls out. hook the new one up and slide it in.
Ok thank you. Question. I am going to do as was suggested. So if I disconnect the breaker to the converter/charger and put shore power to it, to confirm that it is the issue, with the rest of my system be ok running shore power through it without a converter/charger?
Thank you
Bruce
