May-11-2023 04:52 PM
May-14-2023 04:34 AM
Bobbo wrote:
Take green electrical tape and wrap it around the ground wires. Take red electrical tape and wrap it around the hot wires. Taking photos is great, as long as you can find the photos.
rmnpcolorado wrote:
For everyone wondering, it was that I indeed had the wires backwards. Black to positive, white to negative and all is well again. We take the battery completely off in wintertime and keep it in our basement. Even though I try to leave the wires on their respective sides, I suspect that when it was moved in and out of the shed they shifted and I didn’t think about it until I had no power. I’m still trying to figure out which one is supposed to have the inline fuse though, as it’s a red wire. I’m assuming positive. I want to make tags to identify them right on the wires.
Few inches of duct tape, make a flag large enough to write positive or negative with sharpie
May-13-2023 07:11 PM
May-13-2023 01:30 PM
rmnpcolorado wrote:And then take and retain pictures.
I want to make tags to identify them right on the wires.
May-13-2023 07:46 AM
May-13-2023 03:36 AM
Huntindog wrote:rmnpcolorado wrote:You probably blew the fuses on the convertor. There is ususally 4 of them IIRC. They are there just for when the battery is hooked up backwards. To prevent future brain farts, only dissconect 1 battery cable.
I think you’re exactly right, as when I disconnected the battery, replaced the fuses, and powered back up, all was good.
Now to figure out how I messed that up. I’ve only done this how many times before…
May-12-2023 04:08 PM
stickdog wrote:
I've learned pictures are better than my memory.
May-12-2023 03:29 PM
rmnpcolorado wrote:You probably blew the fuses on the convertor. There is ususally 4 of them IIRC. They are there just for when the battery is hooked up backwards. To prevent future brain farts, only dissconect 1 battery cable.
I think you’re exactly right, as when I disconnected the battery, replaced the fuses, and powered back up, all was good.
Now to figure out how I messed that up. I’ve only done this how many times before…
May-12-2023 03:00 PM
May-12-2023 02:57 PM
Boomerweps wrote:
Confusion sometimes occur from people working on house electric and mobile electric. House electric BLACK is hot, white is neutral or return, green is ground. Mobile 12vdc RED is hot/positive and black is return/negative/ground.
4x4van wrote:
And to make it even more confusing, many RVs use yellow as positive and white as negative!
May-12-2023 01:22 PM
May-12-2023 11:56 AM
May-12-2023 03:06 AM
rmnpcolorado wrote:
So to clarify, I had the large wires correct-white on positive, black on negative. But what about the little wires? I had the white on positive and the red with the inline fuse on negative.
May-11-2023 08:52 PM
May-11-2023 08:46 PM