One last test - Run the converter on Shore Power with all fuses pulled and the battery disconnected. Since you are only seeing 12.27 V when connected to Shore Power, this could mean a problem with the converter. With Shore Power, and battery connected, the converter should be trying to charge the battery and you should see about 13.5v at the battery terminals. Yours is a little low, not dead but not fully charged. If you pull all the fuses, then there should be NO DC load on the converter, EXCEPT the battery.Ī fully charged battery should be about 12.6 - 12.7 V. The alarm goes off when you open the 15A breaker because the converter is powered by that 15A circuit. The overload alarm should indicate an overload on the DC side. Btw, before anyone asks, the alarm is 100% coming from the elx-12 and not the LP detector. If I cant figure it out, I may just purchase the WFCO and go from there. I would very much like to replace it with a WFCO 8725P but I have a feeling the problem lies with the electrical and not the elx-12 and also I would like to keep repair costs to a minimum for now. No sense in risking the PUPs electrical if I can help it.įrom everything I read, the Elixir power centers are nothing to be desired. I always figured its better to have the setup than to use the PUPs if I could help it. We run a 12 awg extension cable from the 20amp Shore Power to a surge protector inside anyways for random small electronic usage. We still plan on going this weekend even if I cant get it figures out by then. I am thinking my next step will be to check various electrical connections including an outlet that look like it may have been replaced by the PO. I ran out of daylight and rain is forecasted for today. I connected to Shore Power with all the fuses out and the alarm still sounded.Īll the interior lights function while connected to shore and on battery power. I unhooked the battery from everything and got 12.28v across. I checked the battery while connected to the pup and Shore Power and got 12.27v. If the 15 amp breaker is turned on, the alarm will sound. The 20 amp breaker can stay on and the roof AC unit will work fine. The 30 amp cable also gets stored in there in travel so I thought it may have bumped a connetion loose but everything checked out.Īfter a small amount of troubleshooting, I discovered that if I shut off the 15 amp breaker, the alarm will not sound when connected to shore. I looked around inside the housing that contains the power converter. I immediatley unplugged the 30amp power from the house and the alarm shut off after a couple of seconds. After a minute or so, the alarm on the elixir elx-12 started going off indicating I was drawing too much power(thats what the manual says anyways). Greetings, a week after our first weekend outing, I popped up our 97 Viking 2160st to get cleaned up and get charged up for this weekend at Hoffmaster SP.
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