New problem,,,,lost one of my Freedom Inverters

[Ralph L. Fullenwider]

Ron, there is one other aspect to think about, and that is a welded contact
on one of the relays in the auto change over switch box. That too, would
give you the original symptoms, then the contacts heat up, break the weld
and every ting appears to be in service. Some ting to check. Those relays
are actually like a square D contacter and the contacts can be
changed,,,,ie: a kit.

Safe travels,

Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
84FC35 "Ruff Diamond"
Duncan, Oklahoma

At 10:49 AM 6/30/2009 -0700, you wrote:


>Pete and all others who have an interest.
>
>I have a good volt meter, Fluke digital and its accurate.
>
>Now, here is the good news so far. I powered everything to do with power
>supplies and disconnected the shore power and removed the panel on the
>main breaker. Bear in mind that the two inverters switches are off both
>at the inverter, which is not a disconnect switch by the way, and also the
>two inverter panels by the driver seat had their switches turned
>off. Also all the breakers in the panel were switched off.
>
>I then started the generator and checked the guages on the dash console
>and they both read 14 volts give or take a tenth. After 10 minutes they
>were still stable. I checked the ac voltage output and it was steady on
>121 volts AC. I then shut down the generator and reconected the shore
>power and cheked the meter reading at the mains in the panel behind the
>mirrorl. Leg one was about 122 volts and leg two was about 120 volts and
>they were both steady at those voltages. I then turned on the inverter
>switches in the battery bay and checked the two panels by the drivers seat
>and they both had leds lit. and the input was about 13 volts. I then
>turned the battery charger breaker switches on at the panel behind the
>mirror and lo and behold the output was about 14 to 14.5 volts at both
>panels. I am watching it now to make sure it is going to hold at 14 volts
>and it is so far.
>It appears that a structured start up procedure had to be done from cold
>power up.
>
>Before I could not get the lower panel by the driver seat to do
>anything. It appears that as long as there was power from any source the
>Inverter would not reset itself.
>
>Here is hoping that this fixes the problem.
>
>As a closing note, this whole thing started at my first RV park on this
>trip two weeks ago.
>
>I plugged into their 50 amp service and it was as if my coach was a
>voltage sink ground. A large buzzing sound and I jerked the power cord
>out. After checking things out without any finding anything, I plugged
>the power cable back into the 50 amp service and it appeared that
>everything was ok. I did not check the display panels by the drivers seat
>that night but noticed the next day that the lower one was dead. So
>something was wrong with their power set up. Maybe a line
>reversal. Won't ever know.........
>
>Thanks for all your help. Your suggestions led me in the right direction.
>Here is hoping that they problem does not reassert itself. Thanks again
>to all of you.
>
>I hope I can be of service to others as time goes on. I will learn this
>beast sooner or later.
>
>
>
>Ron Thompson -Waller, Tx.
>1995 WLWB 42'
>(cockyfox@...)
>
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