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2022 Thor Sanctuary 19P GFI
To start , my wife finally got some time off & we made our first shake down cruz with or RV , I will say it was a blast & the Dogs just loved the whole experience , which we were worried about , but I went to plug the Coffee pot in to a receptacle on the Kitchen Island & no power to any of the receptacles on the starboard side ( passenger side ) I found we could use a small cooler as a table to plug it in under the TV , so we had great coffee .
Back home I decided to look into it ,even called TMC , not much help there & can understand trouble shooting over the phone is not the bast way to check must anything , they told me to seek a dealer , I do have an appointment with GRV. in Sept. for them to replace the Transfer switch , but not waiting for that to happen , I'm more qualified them anyone I talked to at the dealership, so I went in search of & found some things that may help others here .
The outside receptacle's on the side of the RV have a tag that reads , GFI POTECTED , ok I had not found a GFI anything in the RV , so tracing the wiring out , the GFI connected receptacles hav Romex wire sheathing in a green color , where most of the rest (15 amp , 14 gage )is white & the 30 amp, 10 gage wire is orange . I had to remove many panels including the Refrigerator tracing the one green sheathed cable that was not attached to a receptacle on the passenger side , it ran behind the Batteries & Inverter , past the water heater/furnace , behind the Bath rm. un it , up behind the Refrigerator , back behind the Bath rm unit & over behind the Cabinet attached to the Bath unit to a Receptacle under that cabinet , in the back corner . That cabinet is above that seat that no one could ever sit in & this GFI receptacle is under the cabinet , who would look there or who would hide that resettable GFI there ?
I reset it & all my receptacles work now , it has probably been tripped since day one , I never needed it , since this was our first use of the RV except for the Beach , where we can drive on the beach here & haven't needed it .
I had to remove the panel at the back of that cabinet to look & low & behold , there the gang box for the GFI receptacle was & of course looking under the cabinet all the way in the back was the GFI . The seat that is there is on top of the water heater & I use that seat for storage , because unless you are under two foot tall , you will never be able to sit in it , I will get a phot with everything back in place , so you can see its unusable as a seat in any way but storage .
First photo is of under the seat on the passenger side next to the Sink island , phot left of that one is of the green sheathed cable I need to trace out , lower left photo is of area behind the panel at the back of the Cabinet & shows the box for the receptacle & photo on the right of it is where the GFI receptacle is under the cabinet , seat cushion & base cover above water heater has been removed , which is another sore spot , when making up the Bed , the Velcro is so strange , just pulling up the cushion , pulled several screws holding it to the base , on both sides .
I also found while in search of , the bath rm sink drain was not connected to the main drain , just drained into the body or floor inside the wall .I posted in the Thor tranquility /Sanctuary 19P defects , I'll post it here also .
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