Electrical Issues

Hello all!

First time caller long time listener. A little about us, Me and my wife own a 2017 r-Pod 177 and love it! We definitely don’t get out asmuch as we’d like but are trying to take it more often aswell as doing some of our own maintenance going forward.

With that said, we are in need of the Podders Council!!! I apologize if this sounds like multiple problems 😬 I’m hoping “all together” this will start to make sense to some of you.

Sometime last year we noticed that our bathroom light had stopped working, not a big deal we just used a pop light in the meantime. More recently I finally took it apart before ordering a new light and discovered the light was fine (once hooked up to an outside power source) but the bathroom wasnt getting any power to the light… all fuses seem fine, we flicked breakers etc no change.

This past campout we went to turn on fridge the day before leaving so I could fill it up beforehand and the Dometic fridge would not work when set to shore power…we were able to tow with it on Battery mode and propane while camping worked fine too but still not on shore power (15@ home, 30@ camp). I tested batteries (we have 2 deep cycles installed up front behind propane tank and 1 doesn’t seem to hold a charge anymore.
On top of this the outlet beside the bed (lower) and on wall beside stove do not work either, only the tv outlet and bench (converter side) seem to be working fine. Should be of note the converter side of bench seems to be only outlet with a “trip-reset” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Phew sorry for long post and thanks in advance 😅

Don't forget to check the switch for the bath. I've had switches that got a bit of dirt in them and needed to be exercised a number of times before they operated properly. That doesn't address the refrigerator, but it might be the problem with the light.

Salutations Jato,

Sorry for the late reply weeks been crazy and I had some caulking to finish up before the rain comes and no time to look into the actual problems haha.

With regards to the batteries they are 12’s and they’re looped together. I’m not really sure why we went with that and not 2 6’s but anyways. And I have a multimeter and thanks for direction i will start working my way thru the fuses individually and inside/outside wire’s hopefully tomorrow I can troubleshoot abit 🤞🏻

That’s great to hear your 177 is still going strong! Yes we love the layout aswell and came to same conclusion you must have.

Will report back soon…

Thank you JR yea I always forgot to do both 🤦🏻‍♂️but the inside wires to light had no power going to them from the switch by thermostat so I’ve gotta prove further back unfortunately.

UPDATE:   ***SOLVED***

RV tech solved the problem, chalking it up to my gfic reset being “sticky” and not fully resetting the system. Now everything works fine including the fridge.

Thanks for the advice earlier everyone