Recent content by Brother Bear

Nemine folks. Found a tripped circuit breaker I didn't know it had. Hopefully something to do with the erratic voltage of the old batteries. We shall see!

Hi folks, I just installed four new CG-2 batteries in my 5th wheel. Model is named in my signature.  Most of the 12 volt things in my coach do not work on battery power. I've checked the voltage with a load tester. It is and remains very strong. I've checked circuit breakers. These things work...

How do you come up with that? A standard 3-way household switch only has 2 positions, making it a single throw.

Thanks, Tom! It never dawned on me that the stack wasn't powered by one master cord. Turns out you hit the nail right on the head. I had flipped the breaker so that my residential fridge didn't run. Low and behold they had the washer tied into the refrigerator circuit. All I had to do was flip...

MJ9250W dryer is normal, but washer has no power. Any help would be appreciated. Trying to winterize and run washer. No go.

Wow! This thing has gone way off the deep end since I last visited. Gary is correct. The fact that electrical permits/inspections are not required at our camp has nothing to do with us being "church".  It is simply a fact of the county in which our camp is located. The county does not require...

It would seem to me that more opportunities exit for errant current to exit peacefully if there are individual paths rather than one singular one. Without specifically looking, my guess is that our current hookups have individual ground rods in place. Therefore, there would not be a need to...

No thank you! Some of those "qualified contractors" aren't as qualified as us "do gooders!" How does your comment answer my question anyway?

thanks! Already been done! He hasn't come back with anything that helps to answer my question as to why.

Just for the record, electrical inspections are not required at our church camp. The only thing requiring a permit where we are is a new building . . . and even that does not have an electrical inspection. I have also argued an electrical inspector out of "his opinion" on a thing or two in the past.

Thanks fellas! My question still, however, is what's the logic for pulling all that grounding back to the main panel? Like John says, in my logic, it is better to ground each pedestal separately than to try to pull them all back to the neutral bar in the breaker panel. Would it not give better...

I'm not sure where this belongs, so here goes. Our church camp has twelve RV hookups. The electrical system is antiquated and we are getting ready to redo it, making it a state of the art electrical grid. One question that has come up is, "How should the earth or ground be connected to each...

Don't know what "the stepper" is. But believe you me, trying to source the part from its supplier is my next step.

I'm not on Dish. I've recalibrated this thing several times successfully since this trouble began. My Ford (NH) tractor dealer was skeptical when I undertook to overhaul my electronically controlled powershift transmission as well. In the end they admitted that I had to finish more of their jobs...

I don't want an RF Mogul. Don't even know what it is. I want to fix my Trav'ler, just like I do my own fixing on most everything else I own . . . I want to be able to order parts for it . . . and if I goof then it's on me. I don't want to be told . . . "Sorry, you have to get that heavy thing...