SOLVED: 12Volt Dead Again - 2025 Adventurer 36Z

theoldsp

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Starting a new thread - now that several things have been cleared up.

This morning while inside my 2025 36Z Adventurer, all the lights went out. All the 12V went out. The switch at the steps no longer has a green light. I can hear a thud when I switch it on and off, but no light, no 12v in the coach. Batteries are 100% charged, for sure. No 12v fuses tripped, no 120v breakers tripped. All fuses under coach on drivers side, first door are good. What should I be looking for to resolve this?
 
Can you see a 200 amp fusible link in-line with your battery cable?
Do you have a multimeter or a 12 VDC test light?
Eagle5
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First guess?
I am used to having a relay that opens/closes the path to "most" of the 12VDc users. That relay is controlled by the battery disconnect switch at the door. Safety item did not go through this relay but are left on full time!
One small check is to look at the CO and propane detectors for a small green LED still lit!
If that is on and the rest of the 12VDC coach items dead, it says you do not have a battery or charge problem but a problem getting that power through the fuses and to what needs it!
I assume that switch is left on? That switch moves the relay and that is likely the thump you are expecting?
But the ones I have looked at have a special relay that is called a "latching relay". when we press the switch it uses power to mve the relay but we don't want it to use battery full time so the relay has a magnetic gizmo to "latch" it in whichever last position we move it to.
Verify that the switch youe push seems to bounce back when released, rather than a simple flip to one side or the other?
Tricky questin time! Do you get the thump and is it possbile to find where that thump is coming from? I aaaam thinking the thump is the relay moving, but there may be aproblem with the magnet not holding itto the closed side??? Maybe it stays and most things get power but for some reason the magnet is not holding full time???
they no longer give us the good schematics to say that is still the way they do it, but they do tend to be slow to change, so guessing it is still that way!
Not finding parts or drawings to back that idea, though!
If you try pressing and holding the disconnect switch to connect side, do the lights and power come on and stay if you hold it manually?
Or is the noise coming from near the rear on driver's side? This drawing shows where it looks like under the bed and possibly behind the 12VDc fuse panel?
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If it gets ionto this area where the data links go to modules, I have to say I'm out of ideas to go deeper.
No tools to trace data or even knw which module to start on!
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Theory says we might get in there and wiggle some wires but that is way, way out in the weeds with little hope!
 
Eagle 5 and Morich - THANK YOU BOTH for your time, Morich you've been amazing! Wiggling wires wins the day. As I walked into the coach and back to the bedroom to lift the bed, the lights started flickering. As I was raising the bed, the flights continued to flicker. Long story short - the main power lead wire that connects to the bus bar on the 12V fuse panel was almost 100% broken, meaning the twisted strands inside had been bent back and forth so many times (during assembly I guess) almost all of them were broken at the crimp on connection. I cut the connector off and put a new connector on and attached to the buss bar with a bolt and nut and there was light!
 
HA!
That is what we used to call the "blind sow" effect!
None one of us were getting close but if you keep looking, even a blind sow can find an acorn now and then!
Hope you understand this is a kind of really awkward compliment, not meant as a personal attack!!
Some days we do just need to keep looking. I've been on some really well trained crews that found trouble in the same way, so congrats on getting it done!
 

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