RV 12 volt System Not Working - NO 12 volt DC power but everything works when plugged in - Camper

[Music] what's up YouTube mana campers coming back again with another video and today is gonna be a quick tip for you basically let me give you a rundown of the problem well my slides wouldn't slide out that was the first start of the problem and I noticed that I had no 12 volt power going to any of my lights or the refrigerator the pump wasn't working either up a 12 volt now when I plugged it into my house using 110 everything worked fine so my initial thought was that it's possible that this inverter went bad well what I discovered was my battery was dead and that's why the slides were not moving out because apparently the slides run off the battery so I took the battery and got it tested and sure enough it was bad so I thought okay cool I'm just gonna replace the battery with the deep-cycle battery and we should be good to go got home put the battery in slides worked fine still no 12 volt to the lights the refrigerator the pump basically none nothing running off 12 volts so I took a voltmeter put it up to the battery made sure the battery was good it was putting out over 12 volts so I came in here inside the camper and I pulled out the inverter and everything and I found the wires that white wire are there and the red wire there that go to the battery well I put my voltmeter up to those and I was getting nothing no power whatsoever so that led me to believe I had a cut line someplace or something was wrong in between the wiring in here and the wiring in the battery so that began my search on the outside of the camper to figure out what had happened like I said I thought it might be a cut wire something weird so I just started at the battery and started tracing back and let me show you what I found alright so anyway guys I started from the battery as you can see there my cables coming out they go down here into the wire loom and into the front so directly on the backside of the frame the wires are coming in here and what you can see is the white wire goes directly to ground it's grounded to the frame the red wire attaches to this what I thought might be a distribution block but as later discovered that's not what this is anyway there's my wire going to the battery and this top wire red wire goes into the wire loom and all the way back to my converter what I discovered after putting a voltmeter on here I was able to get power here here and here however I was getting no power from here so I thought I would take a picture of this give Camping world a call and find out if they knew what this was and as always Camping World was at zero help and ultimately what I figured out was that this is called a manual breaker these two little plastic boxes here and so when it said it was a manual breaker I thought well maybe it could be reset I couldn't really find anything that really said anything and then finally and then finally I ran across an article that said there was a button on the outside that you could reset it and ultimately this right here all I had to do was push that little button in there and that reset the breaker and gave me the power back to the inside on 12 volt so now all my lights are running all of my my fridge is running pump everything's running off a 12 volt that can run off a 12 volt so that was a trick obviously this is at the front of the camper so that if there was a short on the battery you hook the battery wires up wrong whatever it would stop the electrical issue here and as you can see it's very close to the battery and that's what you do when you fuse wiring anyway so that makes sense and it was really nice that all I had to do was push that little button there and that reset the whole thing and now everything's working so before you go freak it out thinking that your converter or something be sure to check the wiring on your rig to see if you've got some setup like this because that was an easy fix and cost me nothing so and that was causing quite the headache of trying to figure out why everything wasn't working so anyway guys hope that was helpful for you just a little quick tip there as always be sure to check out links in the description and be sure to like share subscribe and comment peace

Channel: Mile High Campers

Views: 662,837

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Id: zmNrb7rpgEY

Length: 4min 40sec (280 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 04 2018