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Shortly after moving into our house, we had an electrical problem. ... I knew enough tocheck for tripped circuit breakers and GFCI outlets. ... I was just about to start pulling apart the wiring when I double-checked the main panel and noticed the ...Missing: car
Several things.
I hope you will be able to locate the fault.
Start with a bad circuit breaker.
Once in a while, a circuit breaker will be good-looking, but be no good.
Test that with a electric meter at the side where the wire attaches under a screw.
If all circuits are HOT at the circuit breaker box, suspect a burnt or broken wire somewhere between the box and the "dead" area.
Know that traditionally, the outlets and lights are not in parallel, they are often in series.
That means, an outlet can have a broken or fried connector tab between one plug and another, which can can use the whole system to be dead.
Look at a duplex outlet that is "loose". ( Hold it in your hand)
See the 2 tabs on the sides that connect the top and bottom outlets. If a tab is missing, one plug will be hot, the other dead. If wires go from the dead bottom one to other outlets or lights, they will all be dead also.
God bless your efforts.
All circuits ultimatey are completed to earth (negative) so this can sometimes trick you. Try to isolate portions of the circuit that you are testing and then use your meter to check for continuity to ground. A tripped circuit breaker usually indicates a dead short. Look for bare wire making unwanted contact. More info about what you are working on would help
iguess you tryed removing this OEM PLUG TO SEE IF THINGS RETURN TO NORMAL?or you can just diconnect power supply to plug to see if there is problem,next use test light when connected with power to plug and see if tester will blow fuse ,it allmost sounds like there is a direct short to ground look over wires carefully look for problems and the plug .hope you get it good luck.
It is called an inverter, and it may not be hooked up, u will have to trace the source power for the outlets and at the source add an inverter to change 12 volts DC to 110 volts AC.
check the earth on your leads and also all the connections in side the van. start on the hook up connection and work out from there. make sure it is disconnected before taking it apart. you can use a ohm meter to check the cables arnet broken. there should be almost no resistance in the earth. it is impoortant to fix this aswell as the live fault! the eart(ground) connection should result in blown fuse befor you get a shock like you are.when you resolve this you will find fueses start blowing. if its the one in the house that feeds the hook up you will have to go over all the electrics to find the bad connection. if its in the camper you know which circuit it is to look at.
you can ground the camper cruedly by ptting a copper steak in the mud and connecting it to the battery negative.
have fun and play safe as electricity is not fun if you get it wrong. make sure you turn it off before you fiddle!
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