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Here's today's project "boat" that belongs to my friend Dan who used to
own the Hatteras 56 project boat. It's a beautiful new, expensive 5th
Wheel coach, a rolling home-on-wheels....right down to the faux
grandfather's clock submerged in the bulkhead just inside the main door
on the starboard side.

To bad the idiots that designed it DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE on how to wire it.
What a PoS! Both the + and - battery terminals are piled up with
stranded house wiring crimped into ring terminals with NO FUSE OF ANY
KIND! There's about 8 #14 wires and 2 #10 wires piled up on both posts!
The plus wires are all white, with NO MARKERS WHATSOEVER. The minus
wires are all black and aren't marked, either. It hasn't caught
fire......yet, however.

I think the two #10 wires go to the two #10 wires that screw onto the 55A
battery charger which trips its own breaker....or it used to when the
coach was new, but doesn't run any more. The dealer, 100 miles away,
reset the tripped AC breaker and never bothered to TROUBLESHOOT why!
Whatever it was finally ate the no-name switching battery charger hidden
away inside a little cabinet in the side of the under-the-front-bedroom
storage locker...with no vent to let the HEAT OUT from several items like
this big charger, a ferroresonant voltage booster, 4 slideout motor
controllers, 1 electric "porch" that runs out under the door with 4
electric steps for ingress/egress. All these heat sources and NO VENT!
iDIOTS! At least 2 of the #14 wires goes to the main 12V breaker panel
upstairs in a closet. AS you can still run the sliding rooms in and out
with this panel OFF, I think all these motor controllers must be the
other damned wires. How stupid.

I finally got both big LCD TV's to work, but some more idiots bypass the
antenna preamp because it was shot. Another warranty replacement soon.

Larry
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Well, what can you expect for only $150,000? You think you get
electrical engineering?! Ha! All RVs are CRAP!

Tow vehicle is Ford F-800 5th wheel with Caterpillar 7.2L diesel and
Allison 6-speed automatic custom crew cab. HUGE! Jerk your cabin
cruiser right off the trailer! I think it could haul Dan's old Hat 56
right up the boatramp!....()c