DC power issue after installing inverter
Hi everyone, first post here. This question is in regards to an early 2000s Gulf Stream Seahawk 5th wheel RV. I've never owned an RV myself, but I've lived in trailer that I gutted and customize...
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So, on your pic, the battery is on the left, the charger on the right?
The middle breaker is the charger feeding in
and the top and bottom breakers are the battery feeding out.
You should have power on all 6 terminals all the time. These are self-resetting circuit breakers that trip when over-loaded then will reset when they literally cool off. I think there is metal that melts when hot (overloaded) and when it becomes liquid do not make contact across the terminals, but when solid again does make contact, or something like that...
The top and bottom circuit breakers are redundant, and could also be wired into one bigger circuit breaker together, nothing special is going on.
The charger is probably fused internally so it might not even need a circuit breaker as pictured.
Glad you figured it out. Label everything now before you forget the details.
The middle breaker is the charger feeding in
and the top and bottom breakers are the battery feeding out.
You should have power on all 6 terminals all the time. These are self-resetting circuit breakers that trip when over-loaded then will reset when they literally cool off. I think there is metal that melts when hot (overloaded) and when it becomes liquid do not make contact across the terminals, but when solid again does make contact, or something like that...
The top and bottom circuit breakers are redundant, and could also be wired into one bigger circuit breaker together, nothing special is going on.
The charger is probably fused internally so it might not even need a circuit breaker as pictured.
Glad you figured it out. Label everything now before you forget the details.
