What is the baseline power draw, and how can it be reduced?

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• JHornby Member Posts: 19

  January 19

  
  

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• pthomas745 Administrator, Moderator Posts: 4,458

  January 19

  This is all interesting, and the sneaky little light in the Alde control panel power button strikes again!  This has happened before.

  
  

  Do you have battery power in the trailer?  Any red lights next to the fuses when the battery switch is on?

  
  

  No shore power to the trailer could be: a tripped breaker from your garage circuit.  A tripped 30 amp breaker inside the WFCO.  A tripped GFCI circuit.  If you turn the battery switch off, do the lights in the trailer still work if you try them?  

  In any case, you did some nice police work here.

  2017 Outback

  Towed by 2014 Touareg TDi
  

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• ckjs Member Posts: 130

  January 22

  JHornby said:...

  
  6.  Converter Power.  No idea what this is, but when I pulled that fuse the entire amp draw went to zero.  I assume this is some sort of master fuse that rules them all?
  
  

  
  I always thought that the 30A Converter Power fuse covered the charger's output from the converter to the batteries and the other 12V load circuit.
  If the batteries were not present, then all the 12V circuits would be dead. Does that explain things?

  Charles & Judy, Santa Cruz, CA
  2018 T@B 320 CS-S; Alde 3020; 4 cyl 2020 Subaru Outback Onyx XT

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• JHornby Member Posts: 19

  February 1

  I spent some time redoing how I attached the various terminals to the shunt and battery posts, putting larger rings down first, and using appropriately sized washers and so on.  Then tightened it all up.  I "think" that now everything is working properly, both on shore power and outside with a bit of solar.  Have not had a chance to try out my second external panel yet, but that may happen in the next month or so.  The shunt appears to be working fantastic, and I now have a very good feel for how my battery charge is doing.  Just as importantly, I can now clearly see where the various power draws are coming from.  Hopefully this is all going to enable us to do more extended boondocking going forward.  Thanks to the T@B community for helping me through all this!

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