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Basement Plugs Spotty - Frankie4Fingers - 03-13-2025

So in my 1998 coach, there is a regular 120v outlet in the bay just to the left of the mid-entry door.  Mine seems to just randomly decide that for some time it will be off.  It doesn’t have a GFI plug in outlet.  I can’t see any fuses or breakers being out anywhere either and sometimes it just works and other times it doesn’t.  It seems to flip on and off every other trip or so, not daily or hourly.

Any ideas?  Any hidden fuses or breakers for that plug that maybe I cannot find or don’t know about?

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RE: Basement Plugs Spotty - Gnawrocki1 - 03-13-2025

That outlet (at least on mine) is controlled by the secondary inverter sub panel found near the original inverter bay.

If there are no other circuits that display the same functionality, I would check all of the screw connections to insure that they are still tight both in the sub-panel, and in the outlet.   

If that is not the problem, maybe your circuit breaker is bad.  I think mine is on a circuit by itself

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RE: Basement Plugs Spotty - Frankie4Fingers - 03-13-2025

Ok so for me that is on the driver side, just past the slide.  I have a single slide with 1.5 baths layout.

I did see there is a breaker in there but it is labeled something else.  Let me look in there some more.

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RE: Basement Plugs Spotty - Jeff@ginosgarageusa.com - 03-13-2025

My basement outlet is wired to the bathroom vanity GFI. Check your bathroom gfi outlet and see if it’s tripped.

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RE: Basement Plugs Spotty - Frankie4Fingers - 03-13-2025

(03-13-2025, 05:56 PM)Jeff@ginosgarageusa.com Wrote:  My basement outlet is wired to the bathroom vanity GFI. Check your bathroom gfi outlet and see if it’s tripped.

It was 100% the GFI in the master bathroom.  Wow, I would never have figured that out on  my own since they aren't even close to each other.  But that would also explain why it was working sometimes.  I bet my wife was resetting it when she noticed it was out and I just wondered why it just started working, lol.

Thanks for the help.  Don't know what I would do without this forum.

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RE: Basement Plugs Spotty - Jeff@ginosgarageusa.com - 03-14-2025

(03-13-2025, 08:07 PM)Frankie4Fingers Wrote:  

(03-13-2025, 05:56 PM)Jeff@ginosgarageusa.com Wrote:  My basement outlet is wired to the bathroom vanity GFI. Check your bathroom gfi outlet and see if it’s tripped.

It was 100% the GFI in the master bathroom.  Wow, I would never have figured that out on  my own since they aren't even close to each other.  But that would also explain why it was working sometimes.  I bet my wife was resetting it when she noticed it was out and I just wondered why it just started working, lol.

Thanks for the help.  Don't know what I would do without this forum.

Perfect! I wish they would not wire these that way. I will eventually just put a GFI outlet in the basement and disconnect it from the one in the bathroom but thats a low priority item.

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RE: Basement Plugs Spotty - BusNit - 03-14-2025

Check the Vanity GFI. Mine is wired out from that location. (1993)

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RE: Basement Plugs Spotty - Frankie4Fingers - 03-14-2025

(03-14-2025, 05:34 PM)BusNit Wrote:  Check the Vanity GFI. Mine is wired out from that location. (1993)

That is what it was.  Crazy.

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