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Originally Posted by tinglett
There is a circuit breaker in that galvanized junction box under the frame. Look under the frame below the street side storage bay toward the front...where the frame angles from the frame out to the tongue. See the attached photos below. In the middle of that wad of wire (all 12v), you'll see a gray/black plastic 30A breaker. While you can't see the little reset button in my photo, find it on the side facing downward. In my photo it's hidden by the fat red/orange cable. I included a photo of the breaker as well so you can see what the itty-bitty reset button looks like.
Hopefully all you need to do is hit that reset and things will power back up for you.
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This sounds like a very good place to find the fault as there may have been a small arc during the battery change and that is what this breaker is designed to do to protect wiring from getting too hot. It trips if there is a sudden surge in current!
But there are times when breakers do not want to stay when we reset them, so we need to keep in mind how we might test them if the quick and easy "push the button" doesn't work!
Keep in mind that a breaker might be just the same as a simple switch, other than being an auto shutoff, so we can test the breaker the same way we would a switch.
The metal of the box is almost always tied to ground, os using a meter to test for voltage from one lug of the breaker to ground, should show us near 12 VDC when we are on the input side, then if we move that probe to the output lug, we would expect to see no voltage when the breaker is tripped and open!
We kind of do the same IF we see no lights inside and then we get lights after we reset the breaker but that test leaves us blind if the breaker is bad! The fact that we don't get any change leaves us to doubt if we found the right spot or are we consfused, so if we get used to using the best test available each time, we can cut the confusion and downtime a bit.
With meter in hand and seeing voltage going in, none coming out when tripped and then we DO see voltage as we reset the breaker, we can crawl out from under, knowing fully that we did find a problem and fix it!
We might also find out there is another problem in the line but we can go with more confidence if we actually see we are making progress.
Use those meters every chance you get and they are great things to get to know!
The panel switches and checks do not turn on or respond at all. When I plug the unit in all systems work as normal. HELP!!!!!
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