Electric Problems, Near Miss??

[Don Bradner]

When I fried my inverter (ProSine 2.0) it was a symptom, not a cause. I had
loose/shorted wiring in the female plug on the shore cord, and that allowed 240v
to hit the inverter. It kept all of the critical appliances from being fried,
but the inverter itself was not salvageable.

Like yours, generator worked fine.

Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
My location: http://www.bbirdmaps.com/user2.cfm?user=1

On 11/27/2009 at 9:08 PM bill.sibu wrote:

>With all the conversation about the Bluebirds catching on fire recently,
>we got our own wake up call yesterday. We are workamping and have not had
>our coach on the road for 6 weeks but yesterday, we dropped the 110v line
>on the left side of our coach. After checking power in, and the gfci in
>that circuit, we discovered that breakers in the box WERE ok, but still no
>power at the ground fault. We did a wire around and got the circuit back
>up, but obviously a broken wire some place and we have not yet discovered
>where. After much head scratching, this is where we are now. We are
>getting no voltage at the inverter control panel. We discovered that the
>inverter was not putting out and our batteries were not charging. We have
>had a problem with the transfer switch before but on checking it, it
>looked ok. As a precaution to make sure, we disconnected the land line and
>started the generator. That worked. Batteries got charged, upon shutting
>down the generator, reconnecting the land line, everything looked good.
>The VIP "smart box" agreed that everything looked good and allowed the
>power into the coach. The transfer switch engaged and within seconds there
>was a smell of smoke and crackling noise coming from the inverter/charger,
>lasting about 15 or 20 seconds. Inspection this morning revealed no
>visible wiring problems, but as we opened the inverter box it appeared
>that something had leaked from a capacitor? and that it seemed that at
>least 3 diodes were fried.
>AND THAT IS WHERE WE ARE NOW. HELP!!
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>We realize there is better technology out there than our Freedom 25.
>Please give us your thoughts on Inverter/Charger as opposed to Individual
>components. What Brands and where to buy,or any other fixes or suggestions
>you could offer us.
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>Bill Helland
>95BMC37
>Currently workamping in Nevada, MO
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