jimrex62
Advanced Member
Happy fall for those of you actually experiencing the season!
Our first trip of the 24-25 season started off with the battery dying around 3AM after a mostly successful towing trip. Once I had a functioning brain, I determined from what I could read on the forum that the shore power wasn't powering the converter. I bought an automotive battery charger and was able to complete the trip. After reading another post, I felt that I could replace the converter myself, and was able to remove it today and do a bench test. It's working at home with a 27 group battery attached as load.
So, I'm expecting that either the 120v 15 amp breaker is shot or the receptacle on the back of the power panel has an issue. I can't put it in shop until May, so I will just run a short 14/3 ga extension cord to power the converter, bypassing the power panel receptacle. The fact that I attached a battery charger directly to battery and all 12VDC devices inside worked proeprly leads me to rule out any wiring or fuse issues. I'm limited with what I can do when the unit is at lot as there is no electrical supply.
Both panel and converter are WFCO - converter is WFCO 9855-AD and I'm just using regular SLA battery.
Our first trip of the 24-25 season started off with the battery dying around 3AM after a mostly successful towing trip. Once I had a functioning brain, I determined from what I could read on the forum that the shore power wasn't powering the converter. I bought an automotive battery charger and was able to complete the trip. After reading another post, I felt that I could replace the converter myself, and was able to remove it today and do a bench test. It's working at home with a 27 group battery attached as load.
So, I'm expecting that either the 120v 15 amp breaker is shot or the receptacle on the back of the power panel has an issue. I can't put it in shop until May, so I will just run a short 14/3 ga extension cord to power the converter, bypassing the power panel receptacle. The fact that I attached a battery charger directly to battery and all 12VDC devices inside worked proeprly leads me to rule out any wiring or fuse issues. I'm limited with what I can do when the unit is at lot as there is no electrical supply.
Both panel and converter are WFCO - converter is WFCO 9855-AD and I'm just using regular SLA battery.