AC dead short?

[Tom Warner]

Get a cheap $5 polarity tester that you can insert in each wall
receptacle and check for bad grounds etc. YOu should find the problem
quickly using it.

tom warner
1985 PT 40....just like shanes



At 01:01 PM 8/22/2006, you wrote:
>Bill,
>Is this the modification where we send the dinette control panel to PMMI
>for mods? How about the polarity tester lights in the shore power
>connection panel, or does this get resolved by the modification to the
>dinette control panel?
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>Curt Sprenger 1987 PT38, Anaheim Hills, Calif.
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>pattypape wrote:
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> > Is this a GFI protected pedestal outlet???
> > Usually they are on the 15/20 amp park hook- up circuits.
> > An old Bird will trip GFI if the polarity tester lights
> > have not been modified.
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> > Bill 88 FC
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> > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > , "John Ely"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I have just developed a dead short in two circuits of my AC
> > system.
> > > The front receptacles and the vacuum cleaner circuits appear to be
> > > dead shorted. If they are on, the park circuit breaker (30 amps)
> > > trips. If they are off, I get normal service from the park. The
> > > thing these two circuits have in common is the AC meters on the
> > > dinette control panel. The front receptacles circuit provides
> > power
> > > to one of the dinette AC meters while the vacuum cleaner circuit
> > > provides power to the other. I have removed all loads from both
> > of
> > > these circuits with no change. I've pulled the cover from the
> > breaker
> > > box and these breakers have only one 12ga. wire going to them, so
> > the
> > > meters must be wired in downstream somewhere, but I have no idea
> > where
> > > or even where to look. As a possibly related matter, about two
> > weeks
> > > ago, after a lightning storm near Montreal, I noted that the
> > polarity
> > > indicators in my service box (the place where shore power is
> > > connected) are no longer working. As there are also polarity
> > > indicators on the dinette panel, there is a possible likage here.
> > > However, there was a two + week span of normality between the loss
> > of
> > > polarity lights in the service box and the short circuits in the
> > AC
> > > panel. No incident occurred prior to the AC loss; it worked fine
> > in
> > > one park, we took a long (15 hour ferry ride) with the DC systems
> > shut
> > > down, and had the shorts as soon as I plugged in at the next park.
> > > If anyone has any ideas as to what this might be, I'd be glad to
> > hear
> > > them.
> > > John Ely, 86PT40, Rapid City, SD On the road in Clarke's Beach,
> > > Newfoundland
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