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Aroadracer · 08-30-2018, 05:52 AM

I left on a trip yesterday and first noticed my phone charger not working. Then I realized that none of the 120 volt outlets in the coach have power. The inverter light is lit. House batteries are charged. I started the generator and still no 120v power. The air conditioners work thankfully. Fridge works on ac power when the generator is on.
Any ideas?

Bounder28T · 08-30-2018, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Aroadracer

I left on a trip yesterday and first noticed my phone charger not working. Then I realized that none of the 120 volt outlets in the coach have power. The inverter light is lit. House batteries are charged. I started the generator and still no 120v power. The air conditioners work thankfully. Fridge works on ac power when the generator is on.
Any ideas?

It could be one of three things: blown fuse, lifted breaker or a tripped GFCI receptacle. I would check your breaker panel first, sometimes breakers can be lifted/tripped and not appear to be, so exercise each breaker off then on several times, and of course leave them "on". Check all of your GFCI receptacles and make sure they are reset, often times several receptacles are on one GFCI. You have a 99 model MH so I'm not sure there would be a blown fuse, but don't over look it. Hope this helps

atkinswr · 08-30-2018, 06:24 AM

Check all of the GFCI outlets?

FastHobie16 · 08-30-2018, 07:06 AM

I lost power to the front half of my 2000 Monaco Dynasty. My AquaHot quit so I plugged in an electric heater. After a while I lost the power to all the recepticals but one on the front of the M/H. No breakers were tripped. Turned out I was able to trace the problem to a inline connection in the 120v wiring hidden under the floor of the cabinets above the couch on the passenger side. Connector lost the neutral so no power. Junk connection. I installed two junction boxes in the cabinets And ran jumper cables between them. Now the connection is accessible. No more loss of power.
Also the recepticals the factory’s install are junk too. That way the wire is connected to them is not good. I’ve found some loose wires in some. This could be your problem too.
Your power panel will probably have some GFCI breakers installed too.
Hope this helps.
( In order to find the connection under the cabinet I used a toner to follow the wire I couldn’t see. )

deandec · 08-30-2018, 09:47 AM

I learned many years ago that there were two circuit breakers in the Electric bay on the wall behind my Freedom 25 inverter.

One breaker controls the MicroWave outlet.

The other controls all other outlets.

Maybe four years later, CC had not changed this routing and you have these breakers that need resetting?

phays · 08-30-2018, 05:46 PM

Similar to deandec except my extra breaker box with two breakers is in the forward passenger side bay. Any 120 volts coming out of the inverter goes through this box. All outlets powered by the inverter and microwave.

bneukam · 08-30-2018, 11:29 PM

Had this happen once on a 2002 Intrigue, ended up being a flipped breaker on the inverter.

Aroadracer · 08-31-2018, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by phays

Similar to deandec except my extra breaker box with two breakers is in the forward passenger side bay. Any 120 volts coming out of the inverter goes through this box. All outlets powered by the inverter and microwave.

That’s exactly what it was! Breakers in the forward bay were tripped for some reason. Reset and all ok. Thankful it was something simple.
Thanks so much!
Jim