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Topic: GFCI tip

Posted By: Badweissenbier
Subject: GFCI tip
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2020 at 7:21pm

Tip here, the whole 110v system in my 190 is run through the gfci in the bath.
I was running a small space heater out front for the wife’s legs. Turned it off then later it wouldn’t come on, when I went inside to check the breakers the fridge was faulting. Tried an inside receptical with a hair dryer and nothing.
I reset all breakers and then checked the power stand and found it good.
Needles to say it took a while to finally check the gfci in the bathroom.
Aggravating to say the least. I sure wish there was a schematic on these things.

Edited to add- For those that don't know, the GFCI outlet must have power going to it in order to reset it.

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Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 12:29pm

Our 179 has "most" of the outlets slaved to the GFCI next to the bed. I did a scan once when we didn't have power on a couple of outlets and traced it to that GFCI. There was one or two that were not slaved, but I forget now which one(s).

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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River
2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost

Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 1:58pm

On our 179, the GFI is on the kitchen cabinet between the sink and the refrigerator in the slide-out. It wold be nice if there were some consistency in where the GFI outlet was placed so one could trust that it would be there for a particular model. Ours is a 2016 Midwest Edition RP179 built in June, 2015.

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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,...

http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods
Former RPod 179
Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS

Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 4:52pm

Originally posted by StephenH

On our 179, the GFI is on the kitchen cabinet between the sink and the refrigerator in the slide-out. It wold be nice if there were some consistency in where the GFI outlet was placed so one could trust that it would be there for a particular model. Ours is a 2016 Midwest Edition RP179 built in June, 2015.

That's the other thing. There are a lot of similarities between "east of the Mississippi" Rpods, and "west of the Mississippi" Rpods. People on this forum have identified many of them. Hopefully there is consistency between the ones coming out of any one factory, but there is little reason to believe that different factories are consistent between each other.

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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River
2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost

Posted By: mcarter
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 5:36pm

On my 2015 178, the GCFI by the bed is the master. It's covered by the slide in, but I know now to check it first.

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Mike Carter
2015 178
" I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability."

Posted By: tcj
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 11:30am

I'm glad I looked at this post. I went out to look for the GFI outlet in our 2018 Rpod 180 and it took me a while to find it on the bed frame next to the slide out. I tested all the 110 outlets. They are all controlled by the GFI.

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2018 R-pod 180 Hood River Edition

Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 4:27pm

Yes, it isn't obvious, but the GFI outlet controls all outlets downstream of it. That should be all outlets if it is in the correct location. I can't guarantee that this is the case for all of them.

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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,...

http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods
Former RPod 179
Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS