Could this be possible?.....
Under my dinette bench seat is the converter. The resettable Converter Breaker is in this compartment also. It has never popped before, but did yesterday for the first time.
I did install in this same compartment (under the dinette bench seat) my solar charge controller and my 2000w pure sine wave inverter.
Someone in these posts, someone mentioned "thermal" and/or heat. Is it possible that the HEAT from the solar charge controller and the HEAT from the 2000w inverter could be making this compartment hot enough to pop the resettable Converter Breaker? My first reaction/thought is "No way". I don't know for a fact, but I'm pretty sure the solar charge controller wasn't really doing much (...the RV batteries were full when it left my house, my friend drove the RV for 4 hours, then plugged in to shore power at a campsite) so it should not have gotten hot at all. It is possible they had the inverter on watching the TV and a DVD (~150w ?). Doesn't seem like that would cause the inverter to heat up much at all.
Do you think I should install a small fan in this compartment under the dinette bench seat to blow hot air out (and pull cooler air in from the coach)? I could put it on a temperature controlled switch so it would only come on when that chamber under the bench seat gets to a certain temp. Necessary or overkill??
Just still thinking, not sure yet what caused that resettable Converter Breaker to pop...
-Chris
