We recently purchased a 2011 305RW and have used it several times on a 30 amp shore power plug at our property. Last week we took a trip from Michigan to Texas, and then over to Arizona to see friends and family. When we arrived in Texas, we plugged into a 50 amp service at my cousins house. I did what I normally do and shut off the main breakers and shut the generator down, before flipping the mains back on and starting the A/C and other appliances. Almost immediately, the generator (on the onan) breakers tripped and we had no 110 in the trailer at all. After resetting both of the breakers, all was well and all systems worked fine. When we got to Arizona, we plugged into a 30 amp service (from a house panel) with our brand new 50-30 adapter and I proceeded to switch over from the generator to shore power procedures as I normally do. This is where things got a bit weird.
everything came on and ran just fine but it was about 115 F out so we went in the house to cool down. About 20 minutes later we went outside to get some stuff out of the fridge and noticed the A/C wasn’t running. A quick check of the breakers showed that nothing was tripped to include the 30 amp service breaker on the house panel. I pulled the shore power plug and started the generator. The A/C and fans we had plugged into various outlets came on, but I didn’t notice the microwave giving its signature power up beep. Looked over and it was off.
Grabbing the trusty multimeter I checked for voltage from the box, all the way to the transfer switch which seemto be fried. The generator side clicks over after some time and the green led lights up. However the shore power side contacts will not push down at all.
it is a Pd52 switch which I have read is a fairly common issue and that I should upgrade which I will be doing. However I am a bit stumped in the realm of the fact that while the A/C and GFCI outlets are working just fine, both the microwave, (later we found out when it was time to go) central vac system are inoperative as well as it seems that the converter has stopped charging the battery.
Anyone have any advice on other breakers or fusible links that are hidden behind some panels that I can’t seem to find the location to on the internet? I will be pulling the microwave this afternoon and checking for power at the outlet to see if maybe it is fried along with the central vac system.
I also checked for the small grey manual reset breakers in the battery compartment to see if those were popped but noticed that although there is a bank of small grey terminals on the wall behind the battery, I can’t seem to find the small black push outs on them to push back in like there is in the pictures I’ve found.
Any help would be appreciated, as my wife (who took some talking to get her ok with the purchase) is getting ready to take pictures for a for sale ad haha)
everything came on and ran just fine but it was about 115 F out so we went in the house to cool down. About 20 minutes later we went outside to get some stuff out of the fridge and noticed the A/C wasn’t running. A quick check of the breakers showed that nothing was tripped to include the 30 amp service breaker on the house panel. I pulled the shore power plug and started the generator. The A/C and fans we had plugged into various outlets came on, but I didn’t notice the microwave giving its signature power up beep. Looked over and it was off.
Grabbing the trusty multimeter I checked for voltage from the box, all the way to the transfer switch which seemto be fried. The generator side clicks over after some time and the green led lights up. However the shore power side contacts will not push down at all.
it is a Pd52 switch which I have read is a fairly common issue and that I should upgrade which I will be doing. However I am a bit stumped in the realm of the fact that while the A/C and GFCI outlets are working just fine, both the microwave, (later we found out when it was time to go) central vac system are inoperative as well as it seems that the converter has stopped charging the battery.
Anyone have any advice on other breakers or fusible links that are hidden behind some panels that I can’t seem to find the location to on the internet? I will be pulling the microwave this afternoon and checking for power at the outlet to see if maybe it is fried along with the central vac system.
I also checked for the small grey manual reset breakers in the battery compartment to see if those were popped but noticed that although there is a bank of small grey terminals on the wall behind the battery, I can’t seem to find the small black push outs on them to push back in like there is in the pictures I’ve found.
Any help would be appreciated, as my wife (who took some talking to get her ok with the purchase) is getting ready to take pictures for a for sale ad haha)