All Discussions Tagged 'accessory' - Good Old RVs2024-03-28T14:27:41Zhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=accessory&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMore Electrical Questions...tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2017-07-04:2093474:Topic:3188562017-07-04T17:22:56.841ZDawn Michellehttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/DawnRobuck
<p>Happy 4th all! Hopefully most everyone is out camping and not working on the RVs, but if anyone is around I am stumped on something. Remembering my rig is small and simple, I have one 12v accessory socket. And, it doesn't work. So, today I decided to start dismembering things to try to figure that out.</p>
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<p>First here is my converter panel:…</p>
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<p>Happy 4th all! Hopefully most everyone is out camping and not working on the RVs, but if anyone is around I am stumped on something. Remembering my rig is small and simple, I have one 12v accessory socket. And, it doesn't work. So, today I decided to start dismembering things to try to figure that out.</p>
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<p>First here is my converter panel:</p>
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<p>The wires that I am working with are "B" - a green and white wire that go nowhere except to the accessory socket. </p>
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<p>Here's the converter's fuse panel:</p>
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<p>I did two things, I removed and retwisted the green and white wire and retightened that nut. I also checked all the fuses with the multimeter for resistance and like the other fuses it shows resistance. Note #1 is not currently being used. The other three go into the rv to assumably all my lights and fan which all work. Bottom nut "D" is negative it appears (and ground?) and the far right "C" goes on to the storage battery which is kept up under the truck hood.</p>
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<p>The wires coming out from the converter appear to have a grounding (?) bit here. Note the red and black wire which were also attached to the outside of the 12v accessory back:</p>
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<p>Here are my 12v accessory wires I clipped off the accessory plug (which looked clean) and I had tried three different plugs in:</p>
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<p>The green and white went directly into the back of the 12v accessory, again the black and red clamped to a ring on the outside. So I am assuming green/white is positive and red/black is negative/ground.</p>
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<p>So after I stripped I tested the wires with a multimeter - nothing, nada, forgettaaboutit.</p>
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<p>So here's my question:</p>
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<p>1) Is it possible my "filtered" connection on the converter is bad even though the others are working, and if so, could I potentially move the green and white wire over to unused #1? Or since that's not unfiltered is that a bad idea for the 12v socket (it would be used for weboost, wifi repeater, 12v vacuum and possibly inverter for laptop - although I figure for that I'll have my solar set up in by then and have an inverter directly into my battery bank.</p>
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<p>2) OR, am I not understanding this particular connection and it will only work when my storage battery is hooked back in (right now it's been wintering in the basement on a trickle charger). And I just made myself a lot of unnecessary work?</p>
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<p>Thanks all, in advance - and again - hope everyone is camping, and not futzing around in the humidity and heat!</p>
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