Basic Question About AC Power Wiring
How are RVs usually wired up? I have a standard arctic fox RV and I’m having trouble with the AC portion of the wiring. Symptoms: *After running an air conditioner for 4-5 hours, off an exte...
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3 tons wrote:enblethen wrote:
If your transfer switch is readily accessible, you might try connecting your shore power cord wires directly to the wires going to the distribution panel using wire nuts. The using portable genset see what happens.
By doing this to take the transfer switch out of the equation.
By passing was suggested by others,
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“Unfortunately, I’m guessing I’m down to eliminating components at this point.”
Since it happens with either genny I would doubt it’s the shore power cord. Do not dismiss connections at the main panel and the possibility of a defective main breaker...
3 tons
Ok. That’s what my post was originally about. I asked how the wiring went coming into an RV typically. . Main panel? I just have power coming into a circuit breaker panel. That panel has a main breaker which may or may not be bad.
I tightened and checked every AC connection on the panel. And on the ATS.
Everything looks like it wires directly to the ATS first. No main panel. Just the one panel.
I’m down to isolating components and the ATS is the first one I need to do.
