4056 Tuscany wierd 12V issue

[powerboatr]

We were gone a few weeks and left the coach to attended to itself.

Soooooo
yesterday the granddaughter wanted to watch a dvd
off goes papa and puts in a dvd and nothing is getting to the front Tv, the rear Tv or the kitchen.
satellite works perfect, no issues

i went to work on the winegaurd switching unit, and i had no 12 volt feed to the unit.

I checked all the 12volt fuses in the rear of the coach and none were blown.
i thought maybe the feed came from the 12volt accessory plug near the passenger seat....it didn't work either.....but i found later not related.
so off comes the access panels and out comes the multimeter
it turns out the 12volt feed for the accessory plug was a broken terminal end inside the protective cover.

so i still couldn't find the source of 12volts for the wineguard
soooo i called Damon....
it is fed from the DRIVER map light circuit....which is powered at the chassis to body interface located under the drivers window outside

yep found a 10 amp fuse burnt
so i swap out a new one and bam it goes smokie.
so i go back and look at the driver map-light, it is not right....
the head must have been turned one to many times and had shorted out, and could not be repaired, cheap china crap.
so i isolated the map light wires and put in a new 10 amp fuse....WOW
we got power back to the wineguard and dvd movie resumed, for fun family watching of RV

i could not for the life of me, figure out why the wineguard was receiving power from a map light circuit???
but then it hit me, i could watch dvds while driving

[The Woodieboys]

Which is so important, especially if you have kids that need to be entertained (it's you or the dvd, pick)....

[powerboatr]

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Originally Posted by The Woodieboys Which is so important, especially if you have kids that need to be entertained (it's you or the dvd, pick)....

egggsactly

the granddaughter is very demanding after about an hour of watching the world go by

[KC1BUD]

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Originally Posted by powerboatr egggsactly the granddaughter is very demanding after about an hour of watching the world go by

I can recite some of the lines of the Veggie Tales dvds I put on for the Grandkids.