Breaker Keeps Tripping
Hello, I have a 27' travel trailer, and the circuit breaker supplying power to my water heater and microwave keeps tripping. When I hook up to shore power, the breaker trips right away, and I ca...
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What breaker is popping? The 30A main, or a branch circuit breaker?
If it's the 30A main, I would start by pulling all the breakers, the main included off the electrical distribution panel in the RV (with the power disconnected, of course!). I'd check that the bus bar in the electric panel is not itself shorted to ground or neutral and that there isn't a loose wire hanging around it and so forth. This is an inspection, not a live test. I would tend to suspect it's not a branch circuit if it's the main breaker tripping repeatedly, but something central in the electrical panel...unless one of the branch breakers is malfunctioning dangerously (by not tripping when it should).
If it's a branch circuit breaker, then that branch circuit is the one to investigate. Unless the converter is on that particular branch circuit, it is not the problem. Your first post hinted that maybe it was a branch circuit breaker supplying both the microwave and the water heater electric element that was tripping, but perhaps I was reading more into it than was there.
If it's the 30A main, I would start by pulling all the breakers, the main included off the electrical distribution panel in the RV (with the power disconnected, of course!). I'd check that the bus bar in the electric panel is not itself shorted to ground or neutral and that there isn't a loose wire hanging around it and so forth. This is an inspection, not a live test. I would tend to suspect it's not a branch circuit if it's the main breaker tripping repeatedly, but something central in the electrical panel...unless one of the branch breakers is malfunctioning dangerously (by not tripping when it should).
If it's a branch circuit breaker, then that branch circuit is the one to investigate. Unless the converter is on that particular branch circuit, it is not the problem. Your first post hinted that maybe it was a branch circuit breaker supplying both the microwave and the water heater electric element that was tripping, but perhaps I was reading more into it than was there.
