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    Posted: 01 Aug 2016 at 10:49am
thanks for the update
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Hello All.. Update...We took our rpod to dealer. Forest River replaced converter. All isgood now.
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I had my new 2017 179 for a week, and the "plugged in" power went dead.  I could run for a bit off the battery, but not off the pole.  My friend checked it out where it sat, and it appeared to be somewhere in the connection receptical from the cord to the camper.  I took it to a nearby dealer, and they fixed it quickly.  Not sure what it was, but sounds similar.  Didn't try it on the car, but everything else had checked out.
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Ok, so you plug the pod into your house, and your car, and then everything will run - like the A/C.  You unplug from the car and everything continues to run - including the A/C.  5 hours later everything dies.

Is that correct?
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Originally posted by crystabals

May have been told bad info on battery   an HD24 Dp is supposed to be 12 v.. "expert" told my husband it was 6v. Nothing is written on battery delineating voltage.. grr... ..

That's your first lesson about "experts", including most dealers. For anything to work the battery must be 12V. Count the number of fill caps on the battery. If 6 it's a 12V battery. Six volt batteries have only three fill caps. If the lights, fan, pump, furnace work at all you have a 12V  battery. If they work for a while after turning off the car, the car is charging the battery OK. If AC and microwave work on shore power your house socket is probably OK, but should be checked with an inexpensive tester. If the AC and micro work, but the battery apparently isn't charging you may have a blown 40A fuse in the power panel. There are two 40A fuses to protect the converter against miswiring including reversal of the battery.  If the battery was ever connected backwards, even for an instant, the fuses will be blown. Check them. If you disconnect the battery and plug into shore power the lights/fan/pump/furnace should work. If not it's probably the 40A fuses or a faulty converter.
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What does the converter do?...  No breakers ever trip... but after a few hours of being connected to shoreline everything goes off.. ?  (once we get camper to go on after hooking it to our car)...
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Not  sure .. please read rest of thread.. sorry I skipped you by mistake... new to doing this blogging thing.. 
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We have not disconnected battery wires from camper  when we manage to get it working. We will go through process again to get things to function(with camper plugged into shoreline) including ac and all other appliances. AC is a must as its 95 degrees here and i can even pack/clean inside without it. May have been told bad info on battery   an HD24 Dp is supposed to be 12 v.. "expert" told my husband it was 6v. Nothing is written on battery delineating voltage.. grr... Thanks everyone for help!  Im learning more about electricity than i ever needed to know.. will let you know what happens...
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Hi .. not sure which one is not working.. as when only plugged in from shore .. nada.. R Pod does work when we connect it to the car and keep car running for a short time. After  car is unhooked from trailerall continues to function:AC works and refrig  micro and TV lights etc.. Craps out 3 to 5 hours later. I thinking maybe  battery is doing this ... but why doesn't It work connected to shore line initially?
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As others have said, the RPod has two electric systems.  One 12v (battery) and one 120v (shore power). The lights, vent fan, furnace, and the brain for the fridge work on 12v.  Air conditioning, microwave, anything that plugs into the sockets that look the same as the ones in your house are 120v.  They will not work unless you are hooked up to some source of 120v electricity, coming from the wires out on the street or a generator. 

If your battery is 6 volts I'm surprised anything works, unless you have 2 6v batteries wired in series to equal 12v.  That is a common configuration, which provides longer 12v use when boondocking.  If you only have one battery it has to be a 12v battery.

If you made your 30amp extension cord to plug in your Pod, there might be a problem with the cord.  There are some very dangerous ways to mis-wire a cord; you may have gotten lucky and found a harmless way to mis-wire it.  Or you may have some other problem.

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