Outfitter Apex electrical schematic??
Loading the truck for the Holiday weekend and found all the electrical inside the camper on the drivers side dead, so no lights, no water pump. Fuses checked and all good. Got to be a broken wire ...
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A bit off topic but, ...at least back around 2006 (and so maybe, before and after) OUTFITTER's electrician was daisy-chaining 120 volt loads at least sometimes. My camper was significantly customized by OUTIFTTER but it was designed with a wiring harness that was intended for "simple tastes". In my case, the electrician pretty much worked with the harness that brung'im and daisy-chained a lot of stuff. Not illegal or fatal but not a good idea for many reasons.
The first thing I did was to switch my 20amp main cable to appliance use and installed a 30amp hookup and cable to serve as the new main. Then I added any more outlets and appliances I wanted and home-run'd all the 120 volt cables to individual circuit breakers ( I had specified the PROGRESSIVE DYNAMICS 5000 load panel and 45 amp converter in my build but I had overlooked the fact the Caribou harness was a 20amp affair).
Note that if you have multiple appliances on a daisy-chained circuit or otherwise sharing a single circuit breaker, it might appear that, "...every 120 volt appliance on the port side is not working", when in reality it is all related.
My own big electrical brouhaha came on a trip west when our dual fuel water heater appeared to go out en route. I guessed I had left the circuit on at some point during preparation and inadvertently burned out the heater core. When we got to Colorado and I could sit down and do some trouble shooting, I found that the electrical element on the water heater was just fine ! Must be the switch, right ? Wrong ! The switch was fine. Checked the circuit breaker again and moved it a space on the bus - - fine ! So it must be a broken conductor in a cable, right? Too much detail to deal with on a trip so something to save for when we were back home...
So I settled back to enjoy the vacation but being the mental clockwork that I am, I started going over the route of that cable in my mind. I traced it mentally to a point just before the circuit breaker panel... to a GFCI outlet ! I had installed inline GFCI outlets (outlets were much cheaper than dedicated GFCI devices) underneath the seat to protect most of my appliances - - but especially ones filled with water ! Sure enough, I tried resetting one of the twin GFCI outlets in my electrical compartment and it wouldn't reset - - to was dead. GFCI outlets do that sometimes. But all was well again after a short trip to LOWES to get a replacement (...I always carry a replacement, now !).
The first thing I did was to switch my 20amp main cable to appliance use and installed a 30amp hookup and cable to serve as the new main. Then I added any more outlets and appliances I wanted and home-run'd all the 120 volt cables to individual circuit breakers ( I had specified the PROGRESSIVE DYNAMICS 5000 load panel and 45 amp converter in my build but I had overlooked the fact the Caribou harness was a 20amp affair).
Note that if you have multiple appliances on a daisy-chained circuit or otherwise sharing a single circuit breaker, it might appear that, "...every 120 volt appliance on the port side is not working", when in reality it is all related.
My own big electrical brouhaha came on a trip west when our dual fuel water heater appeared to go out en route. I guessed I had left the circuit on at some point during preparation and inadvertently burned out the heater core. When we got to Colorado and I could sit down and do some trouble shooting, I found that the electrical element on the water heater was just fine ! Must be the switch, right ? Wrong ! The switch was fine. Checked the circuit breaker again and moved it a space on the bus - - fine ! So it must be a broken conductor in a cable, right? Too much detail to deal with on a trip so something to save for when we were back home...
So I settled back to enjoy the vacation but being the mental clockwork that I am, I started going over the route of that cable in my mind. I traced it mentally to a point just before the circuit breaker panel... to a GFCI outlet ! I had installed inline GFCI outlets (outlets were much cheaper than dedicated GFCI devices) underneath the seat to protect most of my appliances - - but especially ones filled with water ! Sure enough, I tried resetting one of the twin GFCI outlets in my electrical compartment and it wouldn't reset - - to was dead. GFCI outlets do that sometimes. But all was well again after a short trip to LOWES to get a replacement (...I always carry a replacement, now !).
