Grizzly Man
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I need someone to provide a photo of how the power converter should be installed in a Fleetwood TC. As you can see from the photo the power converter in my TC is not installed correctly. The converter works great but should not be sitting in the floor. It appears a cabinet door is missing where the converter is sitting. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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5Alive
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I believe on the old magneteks the converter and fuse panel were basically one unit. Mine is and since I've been researching a replacement I've seen pictures of others. My guess is that your camper didn't come with a converter and someone just added it.
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5Alive
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Here's mine. The converter portion is behind and below the fuse/circuit breaker part.
I should have my new upgrade converter by this weekend. If I remember I'll take a picture before ripping the old stuff out.
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JoeChiOhki
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That looks like one big sloppy ass mess..... Please tell me you pulled that converter box out? Who on God's green earth, puts a converter below a water tank, then makes a giant open grate in the side of the water tank step to vent it? That has got to be the cake taker for stupid designs....
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Grizzly Man
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JoeChiOhki wrote:That looks like one big sloppy ass mess..... Please tell me you pulled that converter box out? Who on God's green earth, puts a converter below a water tank, then makes a giant open grate in the side of the water tank step to vent it? That has got to be the cake taker for stupid designs....
I just purchased this TC and need to figure out how the converter should be installed. This is how it was when I purchased the TC last week. I would like to put it back to factory specs.
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Grizzly Man
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I'm not talking about the OE power converter with the fuses. I'm concerned about the power box in the left side of my photo. The box with the red wires.
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BrandonR
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Looks like a retrofit to me. You should have a door there for accessing the area in front of the wheel well so you're missing the door and have that hulking monstrosity in it's place.
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Grizzly Man
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BrandonR wrote:Looks like a retrofit to me. You should have a door there for accessing the area in front of the wheel well so you're missing the door and have that hulking monstrosity in it's place.
I think you are correct. After looking into this, the "retorfit" unit is wired into the factory power converter. I'm not sure why someone wired in the retro unit because all of the brakers and fuses work on the factory unit. I will build a vented box for the "retrofit" and relocate it out of sight.
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Murgatroid
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The Fleetwood Elkhorn 9T I had had the converter in the same spot. My converter died one day. I can see that a previous owner just wired in a new converter to replace the broken one and didn't bother with the fuse/breaker panel. Since the old Magnateks' are a simple design, I found that mine had a blown power resistor, so I replaced it and it worked just fine after that.
I would look into replacing the converter with a more modern 3-stage one.
And, yes, Fleetwood really did design the camper with the electrics at the bottom of the fresh water tank. It probably would not meet with UL approval...
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WTTCS
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On my Caribou, it is under the sink , attached to the front wall, behind the sink cabinet door, AND OUT OF SIGHT.
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