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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
So - camping trip #1 went pretty well in the new trailer. Had some decent weather, didn't hear any generators and overall had a relaxing weekend. Man it sure is different coming home from a trailer weekend than a tent weekend. Pulled up, emptied clothes that were almost normal clothes (not summer/spring/winter/rain clothes for every occasion and weather type). Moved some stuff from fridge to fridge. All done. No coolers, dishes, cleaning, washing, throwing away unused food that soaked for a few days in melted ice cubes (water).
Anyway, got to site and had no power. Fortunately it was a 15 amp site so was able to plugin and be okay. Anyway, I found what looks like a blown fuse on this thing attached to my battery
I'm not 100% sure it was blown as the fuse looked in bad shape visually anyway, white oxidization, it looked like it expanded, but hard to tell if the actual metal thing was broken. I'll go buy a new 30 amp fuse tonight and test.
You can test the fuse really easy by just testing for continuity, but you need a meter.
That said, the fuse holder (little black box on the green wire) looked in rough shape too. Is replacing that thing (green wire or fuse holder) a lot of work or difficult for someone with no electrical knowledge and only a pair of wire strippers for doing speaker wire and crimping butt connectors?
Also, now I have no idea if my batteries are actually charged. What do I buy to test them or store/charge them (if it's the same device might as well buy only one thing). |
hmm that looks odd, don't think I've ever seen one wired like that. It's not necessarily a bad thing to have a fuse but someone's definately added some extra wires there, standard is black for + and white for -. I'd have to go check mine but I believe that it usually goes to a circuit breaker and then on to the converter/power center.
That orange wire may be a bypass for your breakaway if you have a battery cutoff to the trailer. You have have to do some wire tracing.
You can test the fuse by testing for continuity on the ends of the fuse, but you need a meter. PS, I assume you know this but in case you didn't notice, it looks like you have 6V batteries.
Also, depending on the converter some of them want you to have a battery in the system so it shouldn't be plugged in without batteries.