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Old-Biscuit · 10-01-2022, 03:45 PM

So I go out to 5vr to check on couple things and I noticed no
AC Power, Inverter OFF/no battery charging etc
Check the Breaker at Pedestal....30A CB not tripped
*Open/Reclosed it
Check RV Main 50A CBs......not tripped
*Open/Reclosed them

Still no AC Power
Checked Shore Cable
Checked RV Receptacle.....Checked the Manual Transfer Set of CBs

Go inside house to get a drink and SHE says "Power's Off"

Then Bingo...Power comes back on

Dang AZ brown outs.

Always Check SOURCE first.
Would have saved me 40 minutes of head scratching

l1v3fr33ord1 · 10-01-2022, 05:07 PM

OB-

I dated a nurse practitioner many years ago. We split up, but she left me this nugget of wisdom from her training:

"When you hear hooves behind you, think horses, not zebras."

In the intervening years I have had plenty of chances to put this diagnostic advice into practice- and failed almost every time!

Thanks for posting. You brought a smile to my face today.

TandW · 10-01-2022, 05:20 PM

My power meter stops indicating during outages.

n2zon · 10-01-2022, 05:51 PM

Sorry, but this is hysterical just because it's *you*! (I'm sure you would find it equally amusing were our roles reversed.)

Old-Biscuit · 10-01-2022, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by TandW

My power meter stops indicating during outages.

WHO looks at Power Meter when walking from front porch to RV.....

**NLOVNIT** · 10-01-2022, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by n2zon

Sorry, but this is hysterical just because it's *you*! (I'm sure you would find it equally amusing were our roles reversed.)

I got a chuckle out of it too. You are our guru of diagnosing/resolving RV problems. Makes me feel better when even the best of us has one get by us.

P.S. I'm laughing WITH you not AT you.

Blazing zipp · 10-01-2022, 09:21 PM

I rebuilt a living room lamp TWICE before realizing it didn't work because I had not plugged it back in.
Ol Biscuit's moral of the story might be that if he had not stopped for a beverage, he might have never known about the power being off.

TandW · 10-02-2022, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Old-Biscuit

WHO looks at Power Meter when walking from front porch to RV.....

So sorry. It happens that my RV "pedestal" is mounted on the same pole the meter is on.

Ray,IN · 10-02-2022, 10:01 AM

Don't feel too bad; you just joined a huge club.

**NLOVNIT** · 10-02-2022, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Blazing zipp

...Ol Biscuit's moral of the story might be that if he had not stopped for a beverage, he might have never known about the power being off.

I like that takeaway. I'll have to make note "have a beer" when I get stumped on something.

n2zon · 10-02-2022, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by NLOVNIT

I like that takeaway. I'll have to make note "have a beer" when I get stumped on something.

This is actually--and I'm not kidding--a valuable technique for solving complex problems. "I'm going to go get something to drink" (coffee or a soda at work, of course!) was a respected and well-trodden road, as was "I'm going to go have a cigarette" several decades back. It's amazing what can happen when you let your subconscious work on a problem as you walk to the vending machine/cafeteria/shared break room/whatever and back while you try not to think about things too much. Very often, someone would work out the solution or a viable approach to the problem on such a break without even trying.

It's strange how our minds work.

Dutch Star Don · 10-02-2022, 05:03 PM

After chasing my tail for 30 minutes only to find the campground power was bad, I added this light. It's a 110volt LED that is powered by an outlet that is powered directly by shore power. I have an inverter and it will seamlessly power the coach when there's an outage and you don't know until hours later that the power is out.

I mounted it under a light switch I can see from anywhere in the coach. If I think something electrical occurred or I'm just walking into the coach and want to make sure I'm connected to shore power, I just look at the LED.