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I have a '94 Dutchman 5th with a MagneTek converter Series 6300. The problem is this, when AC is plugged in using a generator everything works. When the AC is removed the power does not shift over to the battery. I think I have isolated the bad component but am not sure. It looks like it is the small brown rectangle that sits up on a pin with what looks like a spring below it. I am quessing that the brown box is a relay of some sort. If that is the culprit can I replace that item or jump it with a manual switch? Any ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance.
I have a '94 Dutchman 5th with a MagneTek converter Series 6300. The problem is this, when AC is plugged in using a generator everything works. When the AC is removed the power does not shift over to the battery. I think I have isolated the bad component but am not sure. It looks like it is the small brown rectangle that sits up on a pin with what looks like a spring below it. I am quessing that the brown box is a relay of some sort. If that is the culprit can I replace that item or jump it with a manual switch? Any ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance.
I think you are referring to the battery/converter transfer switch. The little box you are referring to is a micro-switch. It should have two terminals on one end of it with wires attached, and a single, blue wire on the opposite end. This single blue wire comes up from behind the fuse board, passes over the top, and is then connected by a screw to the face of the fuse board. This micro-switch is operated by a solenoid beneath it. When you are not recieving 115 volts from any source, then the solenoid is not energized, power path is from the battery(s) to one of the two terminals on the switch, through the switch, and to the fuse board. When 115 volts is recieved and the converter is "on-line", then 12 volt power is sent to the solenoid, the plunger, or "pin" is pulled down, the switch then connects the converter 12 volt out-put which is connected to the other of the two terminals on the switch and disconnects the battery(s) power, so that now the power path is 12 volt current from the converter, through the switch, out the blue wire, and to the 6 left-hand fuses on the fuse block, the 3 right-hand fuses are on battery power at all times. You should hear and see this solenoid activate by pulling off the face plate/door panel, plugging the rig into shore power, and turning on and off the circuit breaker on the left marked "main". If the solenoid is kaput, you might be able to get a 12 volt unit from an electronics supply store with a 40 amps or so capability .
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