HELP! Where is the breaker?

[Texastoryteller]

I have a 1999 Skamper 23L and appear to have somehow tripped the circuit breaker.  Now I am sitting in the campsite with no power and 30-degree weather at night.  We were plugged in and my wife tried to fire up both burners of a hot plate while we had an electric heater running.  Suddenly all the lights and heater went out and we have not been able to get them back. The socket we plug into is fine, as it also runs power elsewhere, so we know the problem lies in the camper itself.

Interestingly, the only thing that seems to still get power is the heat pump, which fires up when I flip the switch.  Unfortunately, in temperatures less than about 40 degrees the heat pump doesn't really generate much heat.

We can live without the lights if we have to, but we have small children and really need heat.

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can give!

[Geodude]

I don't know anything about Skampers but Have you found the converter panel?  Find that and you'll find breakers and fuses in there:



Do you have GFCI plugs in the camper?  If so try that as well.

[Tenttrailer]

I don't know your camper.  Normally there is a small black or brown panel about 10x12 inches that raises about 1 inch off the  front or sides of one of you cabinets.  You pull up on the bottom.  There will be a main breaker and the rest are normally fuses.  If one of the fuses are bad, you might be able to swap with another of the same value.

[Texastoryteller]

 

So...the inverter's front panel...drops down?  I had no idea.  I've had this camper for 2 and a half years, and spent over 100 nights in it and never knew that.

As soon as the picture in that post came through I went over to the inverter, popped off the cover, reset the breaker (which was tripped) and...VOILA!  POWER!  SWEET, SWEET POWER!   

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  And my kids thank you!  You rock!

~Ken

[Geodude]

Glad it's working!  And jealous that you're camping. 

[GoneCamping]

Just a footnote here. That is a 12 converter (reduces 120VAC to 12VDC), It is NOT an inverter... an inverter does the opposite, turns 12VDC up to 120VAC...

[Chuck S]

Technically that's not the Converter.  It's the Power Center. 

The Converter is just half of it and converts 110vAC to 12vDC.  AC has circuit breakers, 12vDC has fuses.

This trailer has a heat pump?!  These all use AC power to my knowledge.  The furnace used 12vDC -- at least as long as the battery and propane last.

Ya only get 30 amps total and two hot plates will probably eat that easily.

-- Chuck