I have a 2017 Coachman Leprechaun. Two to 3 weeks ago I made sure everything was working before our 1000 mile trip up to Cape Cod Mass.
Anyway everything worked fine even the electric fireplace insert. We get to our final destination and on the 2nd day its a little cool so we want to get the chill off. I try to turn on the fireplace and nothing. After some trouble shooting I find the issue with no power to the 120v outlet that powers the unit. I don't understand the wiring scheme its using.
There is 1 Set of leads that is hot all the time going into a gang box. 1 set comes out of the box going to the outlet that powers the fireplace and another set leaves the box going to I don't know where. All 3 sets have the White wire connected together. The black common wire goes to this Relay. 1 Wire marked Common, the 2nd is on Normally Open contact the other is on normally closed contact. I can disconnect the power to the relay and the fireplace outlet works. I plug the relay back in and fireplace outlet don't work. Does anybody understand or know what is telling this relay to be on or off? What is the purpose of this relay. The way its wired if the relay is told to be on or off 1 set of leads is powered and the other is off.
Gang box wiring
Anyway everything worked fine even the electric fireplace insert. We get to our final destination and on the 2nd day its a little cool so we want to get the chill off. I try to turn on the fireplace and nothing. After some trouble shooting I find the issue with no power to the 120v outlet that powers the unit. I don't understand the wiring scheme its using.
There is 1 Set of leads that is hot all the time going into a gang box. 1 set comes out of the box going to the outlet that powers the fireplace and another set leaves the box going to I don't know where. All 3 sets have the White wire connected together. The black common wire goes to this Relay. 1 Wire marked Common, the 2nd is on Normally Open contact the other is on normally closed contact. I can disconnect the power to the relay and the fireplace outlet works. I plug the relay back in and fireplace outlet don't work. Does anybody understand or know what is telling this relay to be on or off? What is the purpose of this relay. The way its wired if the relay is told to be on or off 1 set of leads is powered and the other is off.
Gang box wiring
@pauliski wrote:I just bought a used 2016 coachman Leprechaun 240FS with full body paint on the Ford 450 chassis it only has 15,000 miles and was not used by the lady the last 6 years.
I am trying to fit in group 27 batteries as the 24s are not lasting long when I dry camp but I don't know the age of them. She was kind of clueless on most things I asked about all though the maintenance was good.
You might get better response posted in a new thread. But, If it was my coach and I didn't know the history I would probably just replace the batteries with new. If you dry camp you might consider changing to Lithium batteries. Or at the very least change from 12v batteries to 6V batteries. The 6 volts are the same size (same footprint) as the group 24's but just an inch taller. No matter what route you take you should take pictures of the battery wiring before disconnecting anything. To go from two 12v to two 6v's you need to just add one cable to join them together. In the below picture 12v's are on the left and 6v's are on the right.
