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jacksharp
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Dec 02, 2014

2015 Thor Hurricane 34F TV's Not Working

OK... This is a good one. Under our TV we have a small cabinet (2015 Thor Hurricane) that we store our Videos in. There is a 110vac outlet there that our TV plugs into. Things were fine until we plugged in a small heater. Watched TV all evening, nice and warm... went to bed, and about 3am the little woman got up to go to the bathroom and noticed the heater was not working. Went back to bed, and in the morning told me about it. First thing I checked was the breakers... nope... all fine there. Next thing was the fuses... all fine there. GFI in bathroom... all fine there... The bedroom RV is also not working now, as well as the plugs in the area where our DVD player is located above the fridge. All else if fine. Did I miss something? Is there another ground fault located somewhere?

Thanks in advance for all your help...
Jack
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  • jacksharp's avatar
    jacksharp
    Explorer
    Dec 04, 2014
    Effy wrote:
    Awesome, glad you worked it out. That would have driven me nuts.


    Almost drove me nuts! Well some say I am already gone, so who knows :)
    Thanks again to everyone on the board for the help. Really kept my wheels turning and save me a lot of time trying to figure it out. You guys ROCK!

    Thanks so much...
    Jack
  • Effy's avatar
    Effy
    Explorer II
    Dec 03, 2014
    Awesome, glad you worked it out. That would have driven me nuts.
  • jacksharp's avatar
    jacksharp
    Explorer
    Dec 03, 2014
    Yea... I found the problem. I feel really stupid because I saw this early on, but ignored it because I was told by Thor that there was a reset button and not a fuse. I assumed the big fuse cap on the front of the inverter was for input (to protect the inverter) and not for output. Well... you guessed it. That fuse is for output not input like I thought. It uses an SLC 15A Buss fuse in the output line, and since my inverter has pass-through AC, there was no power to the AC outlets for the TV's & Accessories. Hope this helps someone else should this ever happen to them...

    Thanks so much to all for your input.. really kept my wheels turning :)

    Jack, Sally and our babies, Tasha & Ladyann (our shepherds)
    2015 Thor Hurracane
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    MountainAir05
    Explorer II
    Dec 03, 2014
    If you know which circuit the line is one start where you have power to and then move to the next one. If they use push in connectors then one could have push out with the heater draw and is no longer connector.
  • jacksharp's avatar
    jacksharp
    Explorer
    Dec 02, 2014
    cjd10 wrote:
    Did you check for a GFI in the storage bays? Just a thought. Ours isn't a Thor but we do have two GFI's down in the bays


    Yep... we tried that one as well. It is almost getting funny... How can something so simple be so hard to find haha.. Thanks for the suggestion..

    Jack
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    jacksharp
    Explorer
    Dec 02, 2014
    oldmattb wrote:
    Is there a relay that prevents the TV from playing while driving? Maybe the high current demand of the heater burned it up.

    Matt B


    I never thought of that one. Good idea... I will give that a look see
    Thanks...
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    oldmattb
    Explorer
    Dec 02, 2014
    Is there a relay that prevents the TV from playing while driving? Maybe the high current demand of the heater burned it up.

    Matt B
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    cjd10
    Explorer
    Dec 02, 2014
    Did you check for a GFI in the storage bays? Just a thought. Ours isn't a Thor but we do have two GFI's down in the bays
  • tommy_g's avatar
    tommy_g
    Explorer
    Dec 02, 2014
    Do you have a GFI at the kitchen sink also? Ditto on the reset of all breakers.
  • jacksharp's avatar
    jacksharp
    Explorer
    Dec 02, 2014
    Thanks for all the help guys... I have tried everything mentioned, but I know there is a hidden GFCI or something I have not found. I called Thor and they said to check the inverter and do a reset... well that was not the problem, so back to the drawing board. I WILL find this HA HA :)

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