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Re: Trailer is tripping a GFI in my garage....
riggsp wrote: Did you by chance recently drain your water heater...if the electric element was left on when you drained it, it is now burned out and grounded which will make a gfi trip, but a regular breaker will not...don't ask me how I know or how long it took me to find that one. I drained my water heater at the end of last camping season(Oct 2015), but it has not been left on or turned on.482Views0likes0CommentsRe: Trailer is tripping a GFI in my garage....
Just as an update... I just came back from a camping trip, and while plugged into the campground power, I truned on the GFI breaker and... it seems to have worked. Nothing tripped a breaker, blew a fuse or caught fire so I assume it is ok. I still will take it in to a repair place tomorrow to have it checked out by someone who knows what they are doing. (the first thing this placed asked me to do, when setting up an appointment, was to plug it into a non-gfi outlet - which I did not do until the campground). Not sure what this means other than I may not be able to continue plugging it in to the same outlet I've used for the last 2-3 years. Yes, you are at the start of a new problem. Since you're not that conversant with electrical systems, advice about working within the loadcenter may be hazardous but that is where a diagnosis of your issues could start. I'm guessing that you don't own a hand held meter? I do have a hand held meter but not sure how to use it other than testing the volts in my batteries.481Views0likes0CommentsRe: Trailer is tripping a GFI in my garage....
enblethen wrote: Did you have 12 volts DC to refer? I discovered today that my batteries were dead. Not even enough to turn LED lights on. I had lights about a month ago, but the problem has been much longer than that - thats why I thought I still had my batteries. Put a trickle charger on them and I had power to the fridge. Took the batteries to get them tested and they were at 10.55 and 9.88 volts. Bought 2 new batteries, and even though I had power to the fridge, it would not start on gas - would click while it tried but never lit. Not sure if I just needed to try it more, but it normally does not take long to light. I have an appointment on Monday(4/11) to have it checked out by professionals but we have a camping trip tomorrow... I figure we will use the fridge as an ice chest, and run an extension cord from the cg power post into the trailer if need be. Electrical problems are the worst for me as I know very little about it.481Views0likes0CommentsRe: Trailer is tripping a GFI in my garage....
enblethen wrote: You must have 12 volts DC for the refer to operate. Is there any lights on the refer display? Do you have a battery connected? Yes, it should when set in "Auto", try to work off 120 volts in present. No 120 detected by refer it should switch and operate off LP. Yes I do have batteries hooked up. No, no lights on the fridge at all.213Views0likes0CommentsRe: Trailer is tripping a GFI in my garage....
Ok. Did some additional testing. It is a Norcold fridge. When I unplug the fridge, there is power to the outlet it is plugged into. When I plug the fridge directly into the extension cord, it still does not work. I have an "Auto" setting and a "gas" setting on the fridge. If plugged into power on auto it will/should run the fridge on electricity; if no power is detected it will run on gas. There is a light that should light up, but it does not. Neither does the gas run the fridge. I tried it on the "gas" setting(making sure the propane tanks were turned on) and no light there either, no trying to ignite. Disconnected the GFCI outlet, turned on the GFI breaker, and it still tripped the GFCI outlet in my garage.214Views0likes0Comments
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