2018 ERA No power to TV

[OnlyRoom42]

When first purchased the power to the TV would be intermittent and then it completely went out. We now use an adapter from the power outlet. All fuses and such are good. Anybody experience this? Their schematics are not the easiest to follow.
Ideas?

 

[Morich]

Are you aware of the power switch and where to find it?
Not spotting it on drawings with a qui8ck look but that would seem to be a good place to find intermit operation. Maybe just worn contacts or possibly not making good connections with loose wires, etc.?
Small wires should be stamped with wire ID!
Example:

There is also a "decoder" list here for ID on wires or drawings:
https://www.winnebago.com/Files/Files/Winnebago/Resources/Diagram/electrical_guide.pdf
Click this for better view?


Basic idea is power comes from the 12VDC fuse to the center lug of this switch and if closed the switch passes power to the TV!
Maybe make sure it is getting to and through this switch?
Possible it is just not staying pushed well enough, loose wire or worn out?

 

[OnlyRoom42]

This one of those switches that gets ignored. Forgot about it. Actually this switch is not even in the user manual. Will try tomorrow and let you know. Thanks

 

[Morich]

Looks like it might be just a case of the switch getting bumped a little but not really going on or off?
Victim of the "bump in the night"?

 

[OnlyRoom42]

Fix! The inline fuse holder was completely broken. Must have come out of the factory almost broken 7 years ago.
The plastic casing was broke.
Thank you

 

[Morich]

Inline fuse holder on the TV?
New one every day but if it is fixed that's a winner!
Enjoy!

 

[RV-Travelers]

Winnebago consistency - all bad?

Fix! The inline fuse holder was completely broken. Must have come out of the factory almost broken 7 years ago.
The plastic casing was broke.
Thank you

I guess we should give Winnebago kudos (or a Bronx cheer) for consistency.

Our 2016 ERA was 2 years old when we bought it. The front TV didn't work with the regular wiring, but the seller said it would work if we plugged an AC adapter into it and he was correct.

Some time later, I removed the cardboard cover in the top of the cabinet, directly under where the TV sits on the cabinet top. Surprise, surprise, a broken plastic fuse holder and the shattered remains of the glass fuse that was originally in it.

It looked pretty obvious that the wire bundle was cut a few inches too short and they had to stretch the power wire (with the fuse in it) to make it fit. A couple more inches of wire and it probably wouldn't have broken.

I bought a new fuse holder and fuse and installed them and the TV powers up just fine and dandy.

Funny that 2 model years later you had the same issue, and probably the same cause. Sloppy installation.

When we purchased our ERA, the TV in the rear would display (sound and video) from the DVD player (Jensen? mounted above the sofa and behind the driver's seat). After a year or two that ceased working. I tried swapping out an HDMI splitter (which I assumed was to support also displaying on the front TV, which has never worked) and the cables I could get to but never got it to work and finally gave up.

I bought a media player for music and videos and plug that into the TV instead, and plug in a USB flash drive and play content from it.

Don't get me started on the abysmal head unit in the dash...

And what's with the wide variety of fuse types in the vehicle? There are circuit breakers, glass fuses, mini and regular-size automotive fuses and perhaps a few others I've forgotten about. We travel with a small Radio Shack store of spare parts in the back.

And then there's the disintegrating gearbox in the MaxxAir roof fan, apparently a design feature to sell spare parts or new fans.

 

[Morich]

What you have described is what I find in many of the things that break down around the house! The frig is my main bug currently as it has been a trek to get it repaired and then replaced! I do most of my own repairs but when something is as new as the frig, I go warranty. On the second call to repair the icemaker and after we had refused the offer to "just not use the icemaker" we got down to the dirty facts with the repairman!
He let us know that they frig builder had a set number of times that we had to have repairs done before they would admit there was a problem and refund the purchase!
So we made the deal, the repair was done the required number of times and then we got our money back!
I've long forgotten the full details but something about the icemaker in the door and how it fed was not designed right to avoid ice freezing and jamming.
But we had to have repairs done 5-6 times before it "qualified" for refund!

Common sense is no longer a factor in how folks handle business!

 

[RV-Travelers]

Ice maker woes

What you have described is what I find in many of the things that break down around the house! The frig is my main bug currently as it has been a trek to get it repaired and then replaced! I do most of my own repairs but when something is as new as the frig, I go warranty. On the second call to repair the icemaker and after we had refused the offer to "just not use the icemaker" we got down to the dirty facts with the repairman!
He let us know that they frig builder had a set number of times that we had to have repairs done before they would admit there was a problem and refund the purchase!
So we made the deal, the repair was done the required number of times and then we got our money back!
I've long forgotten the full details but something about the icemaker in the door and how it fed was not designed right to avoid ice freezing and jamming.
But we had to have repairs done 5-6 times before it "qualified" for refund!

Common sense is no longer a factor in how folks handle business!

The last refrigerator we bought for the house arrived with a non-functioning ice maker. We gave it a few days then called the seller and they sent out a new replacement refrigerator. Glad this happened from the start, made it easier to get resolved.

 

[Morich]

Yes, we got tricked into going for repair as being paid. The problem is that the icemaker had a control arm which had a notch cut into a plastic "arm" that sensed the ice level at some point. It looked very much like the metal part in a common RV door latch in that there was a notch cut into this strip of plastic at a point that it made the arm fail after a certain number of uses!

Engineering fail as it broke before the warranty was up instead of three weeks after!

Part of the failure was that we were traveling a lot at the time and that let the ice build in the chute and freeze too solid!
On the first repair call, I started to tell him what we saw happen and he jumped straight to telling us about the part that broke on that model frig!