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Re: Help! Lance 850 isn’t getting power from truck battery
Also, I forgot to mention that I noticed when the battery voltages go below 12 V on the campers batteries, the Seperator shuts them off from the truck pigtail. I wasn’t accounting for that when I was expecting the batteries to charge off the truck no matter what. Live and learn!1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Help! Lance 850 isn’t getting power from truck battery
All sorts of personal events got in the way of me providing an update, but all is well now so here it is: I replaced the 40 amp mini breaker that the pigtail connects to when it first enters the camper. Then I futzed around with the Separator unit to check connections and the fuses. It’s a BlueSea Systems unit under the dinette bench. Presto, everything works as it should again! So, all is well and I am currently out boondocking in Utah. Thanks to all who ventured opinions and hypotheses!1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Help! Lance 850 isn’t getting power from truck battery
An update for anyone who might still be curious about this. I disconnected both camper batteries and ran the truck to test voltage into the camper. It’s registering 14 point something volts so no problem there. I noticed the black wire connects to a post in the battery compartment and has another black wire coming off of it, so I tested the voltage at both of them and it’s OK. I also noticed from there, it goes under the floor of the camper to I don’t know where, then a different (?) black wire comes out of the floor and connects to a different post, before connecting to the fuse box. That wire at the post has zero voltage. So my best guess is something got disconnected under the floor and when I get home, I will take it apart and stick my head under to take a look. Appreciate all the thoughts and suggestions and when I’m home in a week or so, I’ll report back on whatever it is I find or don’t.1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Help! Lance 850 isn’t getting power from truck battery
EricCO wrote: Just double checking on this... Are you checking all this with the truck engine running and the truck camper battery disconnected at the battery posts? Truck running, camper batteries still connected but kill switch flipped. I’ll disconnect the batteries and check again.1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Help! Lance 850 isn’t getting power from truck battery
opnspaces wrote: It's too early in the morning for me to process and give an idea what's happening. But my suspicion is somehow you are miswired and have intermittently 12v positive on the ground wire. So you can read 12v in the camper but that 12v can't get out of the camper because there is 12v positive on on the ground. The white wire is the ground and I wired it to the ground. Black is positive and I wired it as such. As I mentioned before, everything was working for the first few hours of the trip, then somewhere along the line, it stopped working. Is the battery seperator in a 2012 Lance susceptible to failure? I was thinking it was somehow shutting off the charge coming in from the truck battery.1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Help! Lance 850 isn’t getting power from truck battery
Just to clarify: the camper interior lights and tv, etc were working off the truck battery (truck running) when I switched off the house battery switch in the camper. Now, when I run the truck and switch off the house batteries, nothing is working from the truck battery. But a voltmeter applied to the connector wire indicates plenty of juice. So the repair worked. Electricity is coming in from the pigtail. It’s just not making it to anything else. I’ll keep probing with the voltmeter and see what I can find I suppose.1.2KViews0likes0CommentsHelp! Lance 850 isn’t getting power from truck battery
Just installed a new camper side plug because the old one was damaged. Connecting everything right, camper was drawing power from the truck yesterday when I left home. Last night and today, no dice. The driving lights all work, so the plug’s not the problem. A voltmeter tells me that the wire in the camper is getting 14.6 volts when the truck is running. Looking around for any fuses or breakers that might be bad, but all is good. So…what the heck is going on here?! Anyone experience this before? Any suggestions for what to try?2.6KViews0likes15CommentsRe: Norcold n145 won't cool on propane
katysdad wrote: The heat diffuser in flue may have rusted off. This can cause cooling problems on gas. Look on page 7 for a pic of it.part #25. n145 parts Thanks very much! Any idea how I’d access that thing? Where exactly is it? Hard to tell from that diagram.255Views0likes0CommentsNorcold n145 won't cool on propane
So, my fridge pooped out on my last trip. Works great on shore power and on battery, but no good on propane. I checked the burner, it's nice and clean and burning blue flame as it should. Everything else seems ok, but the danged thing won't cool. Nor the freezer. Thoughts?991Views0likes3Comments
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