Open Neutral and failed transfer switch
we purchased a 201203 cyclone 3110 last Fall.This summer while at the beach, we came back to find our electric off and bedroom tv, central vac, and microwave fried. Before telling the campground what ...
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Back when I commuted to work by air (Pterodactyl) I got sucked into recovering new RV "burnouts" so they did not have to be totaled. Proofing a circuit takes time and patience, and comebacks and risk of unintended disaster. I had neither time or patience, wanted no comebacks, nor wished to attend funerals.
I LOADED each circuit to the max. Some with 1,650 watt loads, and multiples thereof to proof incoming feeder lines. Voltmeters, a KW meter on the incoming power, and several fire extinguishers. I used a thermography scanning tool to double check receptacle integrity, breakers, switches, converters, etc. Today a simple IR scan tool the likes of a HF would do fine. As would a pair of electric heaters. Two days to check out a 35' motorhome or trailer. GOOD SAM moaned when I gave them the bill. But they paid and then immediately set me up for the next one. "Jeez I only did this the first time because I knew the guy" he was a golf pro and purchased a lot of batteries off the distributor I subcontracted to. They ended up low-boy'ing rig after rig. Then came a PREVOST. I had to beg off. This occurred not all that far from Los Angeles.
I would park the "repaired" rig far enough away from a dwelling so as to not endanger it. Then use heaters, and a voltmeter and an IR scan tool, and take my time, if I were you.
I LOADED each circuit to the max. Some with 1,650 watt loads, and multiples thereof to proof incoming feeder lines. Voltmeters, a KW meter on the incoming power, and several fire extinguishers. I used a thermography scanning tool to double check receptacle integrity, breakers, switches, converters, etc. Today a simple IR scan tool the likes of a HF would do fine. As would a pair of electric heaters. Two days to check out a 35' motorhome or trailer. GOOD SAM moaned when I gave them the bill. But they paid and then immediately set me up for the next one. "Jeez I only did this the first time because I knew the guy" he was a golf pro and purchased a lot of batteries off the distributor I subcontracted to. They ended up low-boy'ing rig after rig. Then came a PREVOST. I had to beg off. This occurred not all that far from Los Angeles.
I would park the "repaired" rig far enough away from a dwelling so as to not endanger it. Then use heaters, and a voltmeter and an IR scan tool, and take my time, if I were you.
