No Power

[HBJBIRD]

Ok so, I replaced the bathroom vent in our 2006 Fleetwood Jamboree 31M this weekend.It had a fan in the vent that we never used so I bought the replacement vent without the fan. I cut the wires to the fan in the old vent,wire nut them, electrical taped. After finishing the vent install I now have no house battery power. The two wires to the fan after being striped may have touched. Could this have striped a breaker. ? Problem is I can't find a breaker besides the three on the cabinet below the micro wave and they were fine. Thanks for any advise.

[bukhrn]

HBJBIRD wrote:
Ok so, I replaced the bathroom vent in our 2006 Fleetwood Jamboree 31M this weekend.It had a fan in the vent that we never used so I bought the replacement vent without the fan. I cut the wires to the fan in the old vent,wire nut them, electrical taped. After finishing the vent install I now have no house battery power. The two wires to the fan after being striped may have touched. Could this have striped a breaker. ? Problem is I can't find a breaker besides the three on the cabinet below the micro wave and they were fine. Thanks for any advise.

My question is, was there a problem with the fan, other than you just didn't use it?
It just seem to me like extra expense & work to replace something that wasn't bothering anything, even if you weren't using it. mine gets used quite often.

[tenbear]

HBJBIRD wrote:
Thanks for the replies. I'll go back and check the fuses , they all looked fine. Just to be clear when try and turn the house batteries on at the disconnect I get nothing. Would a fuse take out everything. ?

Thanks.

Shorting the 2 wires at the fan should only blow the one fuse but there may be other things on that same fuse. If all the 12v things are dead you have a bigger problem. You will have to follow the wire back to the converter and battery with a meter or test light and find out where the power stops. This may be beyond your skill level.

[Handbasket]

Bordercollie wrote:
You didn't cut both wires to the fan at the same time did you? that shorts wires and blows a fuse. ...........

Dad used to tell a story on Mom. They worked at the Navy Yard in Norfolk during WW II in the Radio Lab. She cut both conductors on a live circuit once. But it was 120V.... gave her a shock, blew the fuse, and flat-out ruined a set of side-cutters....

Jim, "Resistance is not futile. It's voltage divided by current."

[HBJBIRD]

Thanks for the replies. I'll go back and check the fuses , they all looked fine. Just to be clear when try and turn the house batteries on at the disconnect I get nothing. Would a fuse take out everything. ?

Thanks.

[Bordercollie]

You didn't cut both wires to the fan at the same time did you? that shorts wires and blows a fuse. On our Tioga there is a panel on the outside of the restroom with fuses,maybe there is a diagram labelled to show which fuses protect which items.

[dodgerdog]

my vote fuse I think mine is like a 7 amp one for the bathroom fan


Mike C.

[enblethen]

Yes, you could have blown a fuse.
Locate the 120 volt AC panel. Next to it should be a small plate covering the DC power fuses.

[pianotuna]

Hi,

12 volt is more often fuses. Look at the electrical supply panel.