Electric Problems, Near Miss??

[GARY MINKER]

REMEMBER If you let the smoke out of something, it is a fatality unless it is the BBQ grill. Never make the mistake of trying to continue to use a device that has let even some of the smoke out. You could be the next fire tragedy. Gary 85 pt40 --- On Fri, 11/27/09, Bluebird Bob wrote: From: Bluebird Bob Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Electric Problems, Near Miss?? To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 5:48 PM About a year ago, while volunteering in Texas, I smelled smoke at the rear of the rig. Looked out the pass. side window and noticed smoke coming from the battery door. Went out to open it and the inverter was smoking. Pulled the power plug on it and it stopped smoking. Had an electrical person come out and found out the male side of the 50 amp plug had shorted out. I guess years of pulling it out and pushing it in caused the wires on one of the hot side to break. Put a new plug on and no problem since. Did need a new inverter tho. Bob Lawrence 84 PT36 Volunteering at Skidaway Island State Park, Georgia > 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" >