Just finished our shakedown trip and discovered a few things of interest or not so interesting. One was that whenever we arrived at one of our several destinations and entered the TT all the drawers were open, seems Dutchmen installers could not figure out how to install the drawer catches that keep the drawers closed so that they worked correctly???.
Now I have a new project to replace all the catches. Luckily we had a plastic tub under the sink as the drain leaked
, the elbow fittings had not been tightened, QA check????. The power panel has a circuit breaker labeled "General Purpose" with two leads coming off it, one supplies power to the converter (discovered by following the wire) and the other no idea what it does
. Since I use a CPAP at night we had a pass through inverter installed to provide 120 AC from the batteries to run the CPAP. OOPs! When the inverter supplied 120 AC to the power panel the converter turned on and tries to charge the batteries while at the same time draw power out of them. Perpetual motion discovered?
Learned real fast to turn the "General Purpose" circuit breaker off when running off the batteries. Still no idea as to what the second wire supplies. So, called Dutchmen customer support; OOPs again as they had no idea what that circuit breaker powered. There is also a switch labeled "Electrical" on the panel that turns the water pump, furnace, etc on, no idea what it does and support had no idea either. Everything seems to work even when the switch was turned off. Customer Support?????
Over all we had a good time; isn't that what RVing is all about. Flew my new drone which my wife got me for Fathers Day, played with ground squirrels and chipmunks with peanuts - got so they would come up into our laps to get one. Happy RVing this summer and stay safe.
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