Shore charge no workie...

[eddyturn]

I can't get my house battery charged using the 30 amp service but it does charge while driving. 2009 E350 with Trip-lite 2000w inverter. I have played with different inverter positions including the Auto, off and charge only and having the remote panel set to charge only. I have tried with my breaker positions off and on in different patterns but to no avail. Being a noob on this, I am not sure where to be looking. The fuses are all good or at least look good and I can get power to outlets when inverting. Duh.

[Scalf77]

what inverter/charger do you have?

-greg

[eddyturn]

It's a Trip-Lite 2k watt.

[86Scotty]

It has a (breaker) reset on it. Did you try that?

Also, the shore power plug on the van is probably a square one that says Marinco. Someone had one fail badly recently. Unscrew it from the van body and pull it and check your connections there. The breaker reset idea above probably won't help since it is obviously inverting, just not charging. Sorry, just reread post but wanted to leave that there in case you hadn't noticed it has a reset.

[Scalf77]

When in auto/remote you should be able to see if you have good AC input , the left indicator LED's , the line (green LED) should be on.

There are a couple of reset-able breakers on the inverter itself. Also they speak of resetting overload condition by turning to "off" for one minute then turning back to charge only or auto/remote.

I do have a copy of the trip-Lite manual at http://www.sportsmobileforum.com/for...nuals-116.html

-greg

[BroncoHauler]

I would have issues with my house's GFI outlet when connecting my shore power. If I connected through a non-GFI outlet, it would work fine, through a GFI-outlet and it wouldn't work.


Herb

[eddyturn]

Thanks guys. I did try the reset once and will try that again just for grins. The shore power connector on the outside of the van has an indicator light that does come on when plugged in. I'll have to check that line out of that outlet to see if something came loose. Could be that the inverter/charger might need replacing.

[Nrobert10]

Can you get to the inputs on the inverter? If so the easiest would be a volt meter across the input AC leads to see if shore power is reaching the inverter/charger.

If you have power there disconnect the battery cables from the inverter with shore power on on see if you have any voltage leaving the inverter/charger on the battery cables. If no voltage you have at least eliminated all the wiring.

The inverter/chargers have built in transfer switchs it sounds like that may have failed or you might check all your ground connections to the inverter.

[eddyturn]

Thanks N10 - I'll give that a whirl too.

[eddyturn]

Bronco Hauler - I had fits with our GFI so I had an electrician come out and put in a dedicated 30 amp line with a RV specific outlet. At least hat problem was solved.