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Re: Electrical Puzzle

 

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Hello Jim:

Your exterior outlets may have been wet, this small current is enough to trip the GFCI. I'm not sure the factory wired ours correctly, but since I relocated the outlet it is. The reset button should not have tripped the breaker. I've had few AC breakers go bad, but they are easy to replace. We did have the main lug overhead and loosen in out old power box. (2000 model was replaced)

I really question why they used solid house wire in a moving trailer, they never use solid wire in cars and trucks. I haven't replaced all the solid wire in our camper, but any new circuits are stranded wire.

Do get a volt meter and an outlet tester. Some of the testers have a button to test GFCI outlets too! Just be sure you follow the color code: White = neutral, Green or bare = Ground, Black or other colors are HOT. Don't mix the wires before and after the GFCI.

Be safe, Carl.


On 12/8/2023 11:53 AM, Jim Hodges wrote:

On a recent trip, I set up my 2017 Aliner Classic and connected to shore power. When I inserted a phone charger into the door-side GFCI outlet, the reset button tripped, as it has sometimes done in the past. (This circuit supplies power to the outlet, microwave, and exterior outlets.)? When I removed the phone charger and pressed the reset button, the breaker in the control panel tripped.? I reset the breaker. It did not trip again, and the amber light of the outlet¡¯s reset button lit up again. Leaving well enough alone, I used power from the other interior outlets for the remainder of the trip.
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On returning home, I replaced the GFCI outlet, connected shore power, and crickets. A circuit tester verifies that I have no power in that circuit. The microwave works when connected to an outlet on a different circuit, and the AC power in the rest of the camper is okay ¨C the air conditioner and fridge work fine. No problem with DC circuits. Do I have a bad breaker in the control panel? If so, is it replaceable?
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