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Sat, 08 August 2015 19:13 |
jhbridges
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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Also called the Law of Unintended Consequences. I finished replacing the burnt switch and wires on the heat pump, and was going to return to the cheeep genset install when I bumped the cabinet under the sink and everything hiccuped. Inspection showed the 40A breaker in the panel had eaten its clip which plugs onto the bus in the panel, and was steadily working on toasting the breaker itself. So, I have done the wiring part of the new set install first. Lowe's has a GE panel which has two buses (240v instead of the Bryant 120) and space four 8 thin breakers for less than 20 bux. Breakers for it are less than $4 each. After which 10% off for being military. Out came the old panel, the water/A/C select switch, and some unnecessary jumpers. The new setup will have two feeds, each 120V. When on genset, or shore, 240 would be available but I don't have anything which needs it. 1 A/c on each leg, water heater on one leg and plugs on the other. Plugs on each side of the coach will now be on a seperate 20A breaker. The biggest bite of the whole install is likely to be 50 feet of four conductor #6 for the shore feed. I'll also be looking for another 50 of it to build up as an extention cord. My switching relay is double pole, I'll swap only the hots. It's rated 30A per pole which will work, in that '50 amp' is actually 2 25s. I think I'll go ahead and hook my PD9160 12 volt supply in at the same time and remove the big brute force supply. I mounted the GE panel upside down, the wires aren't long enough to make it work right side up.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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