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by Jim
(South Dakota)
Shorted an electrical cord in an outside outlet and now no outlets are working inside or outside. Where is fuse(s) to get power back to the outlets?
Thanks!
ANSWER: Greetings Jim thanks for submitting your question on our Ask An RV Question Page.
It sounds like you have blown a circuit breaker. Since you do not tell me if you are plugged into a house electrical circuit, a campground electrical circuit or if this happened while you were running your generator, I will have to give you different places to look. So just follow the steps below.
1. The first thing we are going to check are the RV circuit breakers. In one of your motorhome's exterior compartments is your electrical compartment. I cannot tell you exactly where yours is located, but if you start opening up the outside storage compartments of your RV you will run into it. You will know because you will see electrical wiring, a series of breakers, some fuses, etc. All of these electrical components are what control the 120 volt and 12 volt power in the house portion of your motorhome.
Now that you are in the electrical compartment; check for any tripped breakers. The breakers look like the ones you have in your house. Reset any tripped breakers and check your electric again, if everything is back to normal you are done. If not, move on to step 2.
2. If this happened while you were running off of the generator then you are going to have to check the circuit breakers on your generator as well as the ones mentioned in step 1. These breakers will be on the exterior of the generator itself. The locations of these breakers vary by make and model of generator. They are not always readily visible so take the time to inspect the generator closely. If you still have no power; move on to step 3.
3. You need to check all of your electrical outlets in your RV to see if you have any GFCI outlets. A GFCI Outlet looks just like a normal electrical outlet except that it has two buttons on it and acts like a circuit breaker when there is a ground fault in the electrical system in the RV. When this GFCI outlet trips it also shuts down other electrical outlets in the RV. Normally these GFCI outlets are located in the bathroom, or kitchen area of the RV, but they can also be located in
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