So, for the past month I have had the 2016 Four Winds 28Z parked and plugged into an outside home outlet. The home outlet is on a 20 amp breaker. The electric plug in from the coach is not long enough to reach the outlet, so I added a 10' foot extension cord. All has been good with no real issues.
I have been outside doing something with the coach almost everyday (new vinyl floor, new wall covering, replacing jacknife sofa, cleaning, getting toilet to work, etc.)
The only time there has been a problem, is when I had the AC running, a 110v pedestal fan going, the fridge running, and then firing up the shop vac to clean up. Then it would trip the house breaker. Shutting off the AC while I vacuumed woulld keep it from tripping.
So yesterday, I shut off the fridge (nothing was in it) and I had the AC and fan running. About 15 minutes goes by and both stop working. I check the house breaker and all is good. I check the coach breaker and all is good. I check the electrical connections and find this!
It melted right at the adapter plug. I have not had any issues with this being plugged in prior to this for a month, and had been checking. I plugged and unplugged the cord at least 3 times in the last two weeks as I went to empty the tanks, refill with borax and such and drive a short distance to get it to slosh around.
I then started the generator to check to see if everything would work okay. It seemed to take slightly longer to fire up, and then the hour meter flashed once (it went blank momentarily then came back on). The weird thing was that the hour meter, added a digit! Last check was 217. 3 hours on the generator. Now it indicated
2171.3.
I let it run and finally the AC came on and ran perfectly fine. All other electrical components seem fine also.
Any ideas as to what caused the meltdown? How about the meter? Can it be reset correctly?
Thanks for any responses.