OK. I went to use the outlet in the main storage, which has ALWAYS worked. Nothing. Checked all the breakers at the bed. None tripped. Checked the outlet in the bay with the water pump.....nothing. Power is coming into the coach. I can clearly see 120/ 120 on the Magnum display. The only outlet in the kitchen area that was working was at the baseboard outlet near the kitchen sink. The outlets around the stove and sink were dead. I was going to ask the forum for ideas, when I found the GFI at the bathroom sink. I reset the GFI, and......yup....that was it. So.......how is it possible in a sophisticated coach like mine, that so many outlets are " downstream " of the bathroom GFI? The crisis occurred when Amy couldn't light the stove....we had plenty of gas, but no ignition. It seems to be holding up now, but I wonder if I can do any rewiring to avoid this in the future??
If you start getting nuisance trips on the GFCI outlet, replace it. They don't last forever.
My want to keep a spare onboard also.
Glenn,
Sure you can. We now have 3 GFCI circuit rather than the OEM train system. When we added the 2 new circuits we installed GFCI breakers in the breaker panel and did do some rewiring but well worth it. We didn't increase the load in the breaker panel or system just split some things off so if we do have a trip we didn't loose everything at once.
Mike
An outlet tester with GFCI tester is good to have on hand also. Plug it in to each of the outlets and test if wired correctly.
You can easily check to see which outlets one by one are on the GFCI circuit. When you push the little test button it will trip the GFCI in the bathroom (or wherever it is) and the lights will go out. Resetting the the GFCI button (wherever located) will turn the lights back on. I leave mine plugged in one of the GFCI outlets in the kitchen where I can easily access it and see it all the time.
Jerry
Turn all the breakers off then on regardless of their look
My house is wired the same way with a handful of GFCI outlets each controllong several downstream outlets. The national electrical codes allow/require this for kitchen bathroom and exterior outlets so I would assume the same for motorhomes.
GFCI'S are designed to protect human life so some inconveniences are certainly understandable.
Steve