Before I changed the battery cables around we had very dim lights, unless the car was running and the battery plugged into the car, then all worked good. Bright lights, fridge humming away, on low of course and not for long. Now , without being plugged into the car and the car running, only the heater works and to be honest, I have no idea whatsoever what is powering it. I am grateful that we have heat. I can hear the converter running, but it isn't giving off slight heat, like it sometimes does when charging, or whatever it does. I was befuddled to begin with, it's just getting worse. Hopefully the converter does have reverse wiring protection on it. I didn't want to start the car and plug the trailer battery into it until I was SURE I had the battery hooked up right, so haven't done that since I changed the battery around. Between the delays on our bike, the weather, and the electrical fiasco, I feel like i'm in a never ending sit com or the song by the Beach Boys, "The sloop John B." Need to go take our bike for a test ride, now it's raining. Checked the forecast before we came, tpday was supposed to be partly sunny and 58 degrees. Had a cry this morning, felt better after that and after we had our devotions...at least I can laugh a bit now. Is that because I may be going insane???? Not sure if there is a psych ward in Steven's Point or not. That will probably be in my next post. Sorry if it will be gibberish that you can't understand. :o)
T & P
--- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry Jones" <jjerryj@...> wrote:
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> I just sent a reply to Nick before receiving your message. If your converter has the reverse wiring protection circuit in it, it would explain why the battery is not being charged, and correcting the wiring should take care of that. Again, if the heater is plugged into a 120VAC outlet, that should not have anything at all to do with draining the battery. It probably was not doing fine at home--the battery had just not been drained. The refrigerator and lamps will drain the battery. It was not being recharged because of the lead reversal. What was wrong was the battery lead reversal. The furnace will not work if it doesn't have the battery voltage with the right polarity.
>
> Jerry J
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: starpam49
> To: tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:15 PM
> Subject: [tabtrailers] Re: no electricity when plugged in
>
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>
> This morning I rechecked the battery to be sure it was hooked up right, only to discover, the positive had been hooked to the negative. Been that way for 2 days now. It was dark when I checked that in the beginning of all this , guess I missed that. Have I damaged the converter now? Is that what is making the problems? I have the red on positive, black on negative, just to clarify. It was hooked up opposite of that. I looked on line to check it before I changed it around. Snow flurries this morning, but supposed to be 50 this afternoon. Better get going, it's already 11 am. The little heater will work, we just keep it on low to keep the drain it might make down. This is all such a mystery.. Still can't imagine why all worked fine at home. Things were plugged in for about 12 hours before we left. I think, I'm at the point that I'm just venting, but I am also wondering how to begin to find out what is wrong when we get home.
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> T & P
> --- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, NicktheMan117@ wrote:
> >
> > Jerry, et al,
> >
> > I was thinking the same thing about the campground outlet not being
> > switched on, or not staying on when a load is put on it. We have had that
> > happen before ourselves. We plugged into the campground outlet, and the switch
> > was on, and then it popped off after a minute or two. The campground
> > owner switched us to another outlet, and we were good to go.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nick
> > Tabmantoo
> > Michigan
> >
>
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