RickNB
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There is a regular 120V household type switch in the panel just inside the door of my 2800RLS not marked and another marked for the Hot Water heater. Well we found out by trial and error that the switch (unmarked one) supplies power to the 2 outside receptacles and 1 inside on the bottom of the top cabinets by the sink so if you have your patio lights on and your coffee pot is plugged into that top inside plug dont turn off your patio lights outside or you coffee is going to get cold .
We had been concerned by what we considered high propane usage since getting this new Sundance and asked the service rep to look at the possibility of a small leak today while he was here doing some other items. He had no more than connected his pressure test guage than it dropped and we herd the fridge click at the same time indicating that the fridge was starting. Why is the fridge staring on propane? We are plugged into shore power and always are when at home and the fridge is in the auto position. We keep food in our fridge all the time. Anyway after some checking by the service rep it was found that the receptacle behind the fridge that it is plugged into to get its 120V is connected to the switch (the unmarked one) thus if this switch is in the off position then the fridge runs on propane. So when you turn off your patio lights at night you also switch your fridge to propane now isnt that a novel idea . Because we normaly have the switch in the off position our fridge has been running almost totaly on propane thus our high usage and that stuff isnt cheap these days .
How could something like this happen ? Was it designed this way ?
Almost every day I find something else on this unit that makes me shake my head .
Please dont get me wrong we like our Sundance but it has been a short marriage (3 months) and the bugging I am afraid is going to cause a break up. What will we find tomorrow? or after the warrenty is expired. The items are all to do with poor craftsmanship. When I see things like this in electrical I start to get a little worried. And when we looked under the bed to day to check the slide adjustment we found the 2 wires going to the drive motor were bare wire twisted togeather and not covered with anything and about 1/4 inch apart just a short circuit looking to happen the next time we go to put out the slide like at 10:00 oclock at night in the dark and its raining and the slide is half out. Items like this show a real disregard for there jobs by the people that are building these things. It is one thing thing to install bad components but when you install a perfectly good item with no concern for the install what is that?
Enough of my ranting but you might want to check if your fridge is connected to that switch.
We had been concerned by what we considered high propane usage since getting this new Sundance and asked the service rep to look at the possibility of a small leak today while he was here doing some other items. He had no more than connected his pressure test guage than it dropped and we herd the fridge click at the same time indicating that the fridge was starting. Why is the fridge staring on propane? We are plugged into shore power and always are when at home and the fridge is in the auto position. We keep food in our fridge all the time. Anyway after some checking by the service rep it was found that the receptacle behind the fridge that it is plugged into to get its 120V is connected to the switch (the unmarked one) thus if this switch is in the off position then the fridge runs on propane. So when you turn off your patio lights at night you also switch your fridge to propane now isnt that a novel idea . Because we normaly have the switch in the off position our fridge has been running almost totaly on propane thus our high usage and that stuff isnt cheap these days .
How could something like this happen ? Was it designed this way ?
Almost every day I find something else on this unit that makes me shake my head .
Please dont get me wrong we like our Sundance but it has been a short marriage (3 months) and the bugging I am afraid is going to cause a break up. What will we find tomorrow? or after the warrenty is expired. The items are all to do with poor craftsmanship. When I see things like this in electrical I start to get a little worried. And when we looked under the bed to day to check the slide adjustment we found the 2 wires going to the drive motor were bare wire twisted togeather and not covered with anything and about 1/4 inch apart just a short circuit looking to happen the next time we go to put out the slide like at 10:00 oclock at night in the dark and its raining and the slide is half out. Items like this show a real disregard for there jobs by the people that are building these things. It is one thing thing to install bad components but when you install a perfectly good item with no concern for the install what is that?
Enough of my ranting but you might want to check if your fridge is connected to that switch.