I guess I've got a different story and a different RV buying experience than most. When all was said & done they are going to make things right by me.įor the price I paid and the features of the camper I'm still satisfied. Of course they had to look into the situation and get more information from me and from the people at the factory. I was pleasantly surprised at how responsive they were to the consumer. I had some meaningful communication back & forth with the factory. But once that fuse blew on the line they should have traced the problem down and fixed it properly instead of butchering the entire lighting circuit. Sure a simple mistake like wiring the outside light backwards can happen. Six hours of my day spent chasing down and fixing something that never should have happened. There are wiring standards for a reason and it is completely unacceptable that somebody butchered this wiring so badly. At some point somebody had to say 'Hey bill, why aren't these lights working?" I can't imagine that just one guy at Coachmen did this. The Jagoff couldn't even be bothered to try and line up the holes after he just butchered the lighting circuit. I know they came down because when I pulled them there was a second set of holes for the screws at each light. They get pulled down and the wires switched. Some genius clipped the wires and reversed the polarity of the circuit now the fuse won't blow.Ĥ The ceiling lights now wouldn't work so the polarity was switched at the switch bank to get the ceiling lights working.ĥ Now the light under the radio and the bathroom light won't work because their polarity is backwards. I'll explain how I know that in a minute.ģ When the fuse was put in it kept blowing because it was going right to ground. Now doing my best Peter Faulk here is what happened:ġ Someone at Coachmen wired that outside light backwards sending the power feed to ground through the aluminum siding.Ģ Everything else was wired correctly. Fix the polarity on the two non-working lights and now everything is good. 12V LEDs won't work if the polarity is backwards. I pull it down and the polarity is reversed. :? I thought it was weird the way that light was wired in there. Wait now the light in the bathroom and the light under the radio don't work. I switch the wires so they are correct on the outside light, the switch bank, and the fuse panel. That would cause the fuse to blow when orange/white is hooked to power at fuse box. Since it was on the outside the automotive socket sent the orange/white wire to ground through the aluminum siding. On an interior light like this it wouldn't matter because it would be screwed to a cabinet. Sure enough someone working at Coachmen wired the outside light backwards. The trailer does have aluminum siding so if that is wired backwards the hot side would be grounded. I'll get back to that.įinally I spot the likely culprit the amber light outside the door. Pull out radio: not there either but something does look wrong. Remove cover on frame junction box near tongue: nope, not there. I've been around long enough to know this could easily turn into a giant goose hunt. Even after I clipped the wires at the switch bank the orange/white wire at the fuse panel was still going to ground. Most of them have black wires so they are switched at the switch bank. I pull a few lights down since this is the ceiling light circuit. I go to the switch bank up front and pull it out and find another example. You've got to be kidding me! In the factory a fuse blows so they clip the wires and swap them around to fix it. Obviously someone made a boo-boo and just swapped the polarity of the wires right at the panel. I got the box unscrewed and ripped apart and started to make room for a larger compartment for my cord. There was also this sloppy job of getting the wires through the wall. Pretty clear this stupid little box is too small for a 30' cord. I decided to pull the sofa out to see what the problem was. I could barely get my 30Amp cord stowed on my brand new 2017 Coachmen Viking 21RD.
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