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Old 03-06-2020, 01:40 PM   #1
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No electric to refrigerator

I have 2015 Axis and I have no power to refrigerator and 2 outlets in bedroom and the one by couch and TV over the door. I checked all breakers and they are ok I reset the gfi (switch is working and has power) I turned off and on all breakers to see if they tripped still nothing. HELP!

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Old 03-06-2020, 01:48 PM   #2
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Do you have an inverter?
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Old 03-06-2020, 02:02 PM   #3
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No I have a converter
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Old 03-06-2020, 02:05 PM   #4
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It seem to be a loose connection because just before it went out it off and on and then off for good
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Old 03-06-2020, 02:06 PM   #5
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When you checked the breakers did you trip them and reset them? If so you have a wiring problem somewhere, or a receptacle with bad wire connections.
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Old 03-06-2020, 02:09 PM   #6
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Is there any type of wiring diagram to see how electric line are run
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Old 03-06-2020, 02:17 PM   #7
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Either go to the Thor customer center website and sign up with your VIN to download all documents for your coach, or
Call Thor Customer Service with your VIN and ask them to email you the wiring diagrams for your coach.
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Old 03-06-2020, 11:35 PM   #8
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I have 2015 Axis and I have no power to refridgerator and 2 outlets in bedroom and the one by couch and TV over the door. I checked all breakers and they are ok I reset the gfi (switch is working and has power) I turned off and on all breakers to see if they tripped still nothing. HELP!
If your sink is next to the door as in pictures I have looked at, Then the outlet over the door is on a GFI circuit. Any outlet within 6' of a water supply is GFI protected. Other out lets can also be put on it for convenience of wiring. Check your GFI outlet in the bath.
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Old 03-07-2020, 01:11 PM   #9
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Well I figured it out. My RV was a rental b4 I got it and it appears that someone prior to me overloaded the circuits and burnt 5 of them. Cut them all back to good wire and reconnected them and all is good.
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Old 03-07-2020, 03:23 PM   #10
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Well I figured it out. My RV was a rental b4 I got it and it appears that someone prior to me overloaded the circuits and burnt 5 of them. Cut them all back to good wire and reconnected them and all is good.


That shouldn’t be possible! The breaker is supposed to trip before you can burn wires from an overload. Perhaps it was a loose connection at your outlets. You might check a few of the originals that are still working. Perhaps the “skilled electrician” that wired your coach was in a hurry that day!
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That shouldn’t be possible! The breaker is supposed to trip before you can burn wires from an overload. Perhaps it was a loose connection at your outlets. You might check a few of the originals that are still working. Perhaps the “skilled electrician” that wired your coach was in a hurry that day!
That is very much possible. See it all the time. Breakers trip on overload. Not from over heating. A loose connection will cause over heating but not overloading or shorting.
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Old 03-07-2020, 09:00 PM   #12
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That is very much possible. See it all the time. Breakers trip on overload. Not from over heating. A loose connection will cause over heating but not overloading or shorting.


Well that’s EXACTLY what I said!
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Old 03-07-2020, 09:27 PM   #13
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Well that’s EXACTLY what I said!
You said the breaker should trip before burning wires. That is true BUT what I said is wires will get hot and burn without tripping the breaker.
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Old 03-07-2020, 11:42 PM   #14
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You said the breaker should trip before burning wires. That is true BUT what I said is wires will get hot and burn without tripping the breaker.


Me too. But I’m done.
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That is very much possible. See it all the time. Breakers trip on overload. Not from over heating. A loose connection will cause over heating but not overloading or shorting.
Isn’t that why the new homes now have arc-fault breakers instead of just GFI? I understood that an arc-fault breaker would trip if the connection starts to overheat from being loose.
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Isn’t that why the new homes now have arc-fault breakers instead of just GFI? I understood that an arc-fault breaker would trip if the connection starts to overheat from being loose.
That is correct. If they were installed in our RV's, none of us would ever have electric in our units.
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