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Originally Posted by Dirtdad
2018 Intent 26m
Just spent 2 days with shore power, everything worked great. Prior to that, finished 400 watt solar install, and used that for 4 days at home. Worked great (got it to power residential fridge). Left campground, and now lights, waterpump, don't run off the house batteries. If I run the motor, everything works. As soon as I turn the motor off, nothing. However, the inverter is still running the fridge, and my battery monitor shows 96%. The battery switch is on.
Help!
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This seems very confusing as we work our way into understanding what the RV will and will not do. Confusion is normal but study is needed to understand all the new ideas we find.
So first question if you have the owners manual to read up on what to expect and learn some of the terms.
If not in a big bag of info, this is where to find and download the online manual for your RV:
https://www.winnebago.com/owners/own...r-manuals/2018
In section 6, there is a great deal of info about the electrical and you will need to study it to get a handle on what things do as there appears to be lots you are missing or what you are saying.
One point is when you say you have no house battery power but the inverter is working? IF the inverter is working, it is using 12 house battery power to make 110AC power. So the two ideas of the inverter working and no house battery power do not fit together! Either there IS house battery power or the inverter IS NOT going to work. It can't be both ways, so we need to know more about what is happening to begin to help.
If the power cord is plugged in and getting power from a plug or the generator, the inverter doesn't have to work as all the items that need 110 aC will be getting it from the cord. The inverter should normally be turned OFF if it is not needed as a way to keep it from running the batteries down when it is not needed and really doing nothing.
Section 6 explains this as well as plugging in the cord to either a plug or the generator plug.
There are two different items on the RV and they work kind of opposite. One is the inverter which uses 12VDC to make 110AC and the other is a converter which uses 110AC to make 12VDC to run low power stuff as well as charge the batteries. The converter puts power into the batteries and the inverter takes it out!
When plugged and the converter is getting AC power the batteries should read well above 12, possibly 13+ as the converter charging is working. If the battery voltage is less than 12 and you are plugged in, there is something keeping the converter from charging the batteries.
You need to tell us what is actually happening with the batteries without worry about the inverter at this point as it is not needed when plugged in or generator is running. I would suggest turning it off until you figure out if the batteries are okay and getting charged as needed.
You will likely need a meter to read all kinds of things to fix the electrical systems as the monito is a pretty lame syustem that will give you all kinds of info that really menas very little for troubleshooting.
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