Fleetwood Niagara PUP - Weird Electrical Issue
I inherited a 2005 Fleetwood Niagara pop up camper And was told that there might be some problems with the electrical system... “maybe a short somewhere,” they said.
Upon closer inspection the 7 pin wire harness was dragged along the road and frayed down to the copper wire. That’s the first issue which is easy to resolve. I then opened up the plastic battery boxes on the tow hitch to discover what appears to be 2 12v batteries connected in series (pos to neg). Although, in this case, both positive and negative terminals are connected to their opposing terminals on the opposite battery, which would I guess make this series/parallel?
Regardless, the way these batteries are connected would double the voltage not the capacity, resulting in 24 volts of output. Unless I’m completely crazy or missing something? I do know for certain that this trailer is a 12v system and I do know for certain these two batteries are each 12v and appear to be connected in series.
Any electrical experts care to chime in? What sorta damage might be done pushing 24v through a 12v system? Surely these have some sort of breaker? I cannot find a highly detailed wiring diagram for this thing, but I am of the mind to replace these two batteries but connect them in parallel which would make sense for this type of trailer, which has a bunch of bells and whistle’s and I can see you needing more capacity, not voltage. Maybe the previous owner just messed up and reconnected them wrong.
Upon closer inspection the 7 pin wire harness was dragged along the road and frayed down to the copper wire. That’s the first issue which is easy to resolve. I then opened up the plastic battery boxes on the tow hitch to discover what appears to be 2 12v batteries connected in series (pos to neg). Although, in this case, both positive and negative terminals are connected to their opposing terminals on the opposite battery, which would I guess make this series/parallel?
Regardless, the way these batteries are connected would double the voltage not the capacity, resulting in 24 volts of output. Unless I’m completely crazy or missing something? I do know for certain that this trailer is a 12v system and I do know for certain these two batteries are each 12v and appear to be connected in series.
Any electrical experts care to chime in? What sorta damage might be done pushing 24v through a 12v system? Surely these have some sort of breaker? I cannot find a highly detailed wiring diagram for this thing, but I am of the mind to replace these two batteries but connect them in parallel which would make sense for this type of trailer, which has a bunch of bells and whistle’s and I can see you needing more capacity, not voltage. Maybe the previous owner just messed up and reconnected them wrong.
