50 amp Smart Energy management system
Hi all from sunny Florida. WE have a 2004 Holiday Rambler Ambassador class A RV. My problem, last weekend we were out to Horseshoe Beach. We lost all DC interior lights. All A/C works fine. The displa...
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goldtop1 wrote:
Hey Mr. Wizard, I have been working on it for the past half hour. The cutoff switch inside the entry door for the interior 12VDC broke so I took it out HAVE ANOTHER ON ORDER I took a jumper wire and jumped the terminals and low and behold the lights came on. Well for about 15 minutes. The 5 amp inline fuse at the solenoid blew and the lights went off of course.The solenoid got very warm. Any ideas?
The solenoid is a Latching solenoid. NEVER apply constant power to the 2 small activation terminals(jumpering the wires). Go to the solenoid, install a 4 gauge short battery cable between the 2 LARGE posts on that solenoid. Then get a new solenoid and the new switch. Odds are, you have destroyed the latching feature of the solenoid. A Latching solenoid, takes a momentary ground or hot trigger and the solenoid (Latches) to an Open or closed position. They use these because once OPEN or CLOSED, they require NO power to stay in either position. Doug
