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kregernick
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Dec 28, 2016

Skamper 950 truck camper manual/ electrical help

I just picked up a skamper 950 camper I believe it's a 1990.
For the life of me I have gone through every cubbyhole and opening I can find on the camper and Cannot locate the breaker/electrical panel.

Can anyone help a guy out?
Thank you in advance.

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  • Picture of ours getting ready to slide lower unit out to replace with a P/D converter.

    Once wiring disconnected the entire lower metal box slides out (Magnatec). With its big honking transformer that gets really hot. Ours is raised off the floor about an 1 1/2" so I only had slight discoloration of floor from heat.

    I briefly looked around thinking might find pic of converter and where it might be, closest was picture showing something on front wall but had a funny panel, not sure. If camper has one you'd think it would pretty obvious, certainly easily accessible.
  • looks like someone cut the floor.
    that is just a picture I found on the internet that was showing how those older ones run a little warm.
  • That's strange Towpro, mine has a metal housing on the bottom as well and is raised above the floor.

    BTW, what is that fabric looking stuff stapled down? It's as though they removed the bottom housing
  • Find the shore power cable. The cable will lead you to the converter, which is most likely directly inside the camper from where the power cord enters.

    Most of them from that era are covered by a decorative plastic panel which might lead you to believe that it is a heater outlet or radio speaker.
  • Here is what they look like inside.

    you will not see that burnt mark on floor until you remove the charging unit that was in bottom. (and I bet it will be burnt like that)
    If yours looks like this, HERE is where you get the replacement charging unit that will fix the problem, and be 100X better for charging your batteries.