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While traveling to the west coast in our 2016 Vegas 24.1 we were delayed a few days after our transfer switch blew out knocking out our 30 amp shore power connection. We were running the AC and electric water heater and had a surge protector connected when the power cut out leaving an electrical burning smell in the rear compartment. None of the breakers or fuses were tripped or burned and both generator power and 12V still functioned. We managed to find a local repairman who replaced the transfer switch. He found the insulation around the cable ends were stripped short not allowing the wire strands to be properly twisted into a solid bundle prior to connecting them with a twisted wire connector and wrapping them with electrical tape. He said that he's replaced a number of switches because the loose strands often short at the wire connectors sending an arc wiping out the solenoid switch. Our switch box is located under the passenger side bed towards the rear of the compartment and looks like a black box with heavy orange cables running out of it. It might be worth re-doing all the cable connections to make sure there aren't any loose strands.