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kohraptor · 11-23-2016, 04:28 PM

My MH is parking beside my house on 110 plug in. I was trying to use portable heater than I really there is no power on 110 outlets. Shore power is charging batteries and all lights are working except 110 volts. I was using cpap machine one last year at camp ground and it was working fine. Does home and camp ground power sources is not the same? Should I have 110 volts power? If I have chase wiring in MH where should start? Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

mfire1339 · 11-23-2016, 04:33 PM

Check the ground fault outlet in the bathroom and reset it buy pushing the test button then reset.

Mike

hoosierrun · 11-23-2016, 04:36 PM

Maybe a breaker tripped from using the space heater. Those things draw a lot of power and it might have caused a breaker to trip due to overloading the circuit.

kohraptor · 11-23-2016, 05:13 PM

I've checked breaker box which is under the stove. 30 amps and the rest are 15 amps are on (not tripped). Microwave light is on. I run extra line from multiple plugs into MH for heater and it's working fine. To reset breaker, should I pull all breakers to off and to to on again?

NYBobbo · 11-24-2016, 08:12 AM

did you check the 110 outlets with something other than the heater? could your heater be bad?

wa8yxm · 11-24-2016, 03:35 PM

As someone said you may have tripped a breaker.
Also, often all the outlets in an RV are hooked to the GFCI which is often in the bathroom. It may have tripped.

And if your RV has an INVERTER.. it may have a tripped breaker, either on the inverter or on a 2nd braker panel somewhere

But more important.
The wiring in many RV's is a bit "light" for 1500 watt Space Heaters.

I have "Sensed' hot wire (The nose knows) when using a space heater, I have had connections fail when using space heaters.. (I fixed both issues) I finally installed special outlets for the space heaters, They are 15/20 amp, fed with 12ga bent around a screw in the approved fashion not punched down like most RV outlets. You may have borken your RV.

Start by checking the GFCI and all breakers. Then take a night light around and test every outlet.. If you find ONE or Two that work we can go from there.

Now running a Space heater on LOW That's ok, but only one per circuit breaker.. (That is if you have more than one outlet on the same breaker,, Find an outlet that is on a DIFFERENT breaker for the 2nd space heater)

Or do as I did, install HD outlets.

kohraptor · 11-24-2016, 09:48 PM

I love this forum, because of all your help I've learned a little more. The little red light is shinning as I entered the MH (GFCI button). The light went off after button was pushed and all back normal again. Thanks again.