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Just got home, haven’t read through your posts, but I had a weird wrinkle. The Watch Dog threw up an E6 code and said my 110 connection had and open neural and it would not allow power in until remedied. Took a pic, and 15 seconds later it turned on and is letting power in. I don’t have the Multiplus dialed in, so I can’t view it, but it appears that it is doing its boost thing as the intellitec is showing 30 amps available, one a 15 amp circut from my shed. And sure enough, able to run an AC with just yje extension cord from the shed. Anyway, I’m going to open the watchdog as well and check for anything out of the ordinary in it as well, Thanks JD

I’ll try and go through you posts and digest. I apologize as my attitude is not on point, and I’m sure it’s coming across as unappreciative. I have way to many irons in the proverbial fire so to speak. A work property, and personal property I’m working on, And It’s difficult to be somewhat handy and knowledgeable. Not a knock on my family, but when they know you can do stuff, they seem to seek you out for their projects. It’s get a bit overwhelming, honestly at times I get get to feeling unappreciated for the output. So my sad sack story to round about say thanks and Sorry, everyone have a good night

Not sure how to process that. Again my understanding, when not hooked the shore power, the ATS switch defaults or clicks on to the Genset circuit, wether there is voltage from the Gen or not? The ATS stays connected to the Genset circuit until it senses voltage from the shore power circut, then there is a delay, and then the switch “disconnects “ from the Genset circuit and connects to the shore power circuit. My theory, there was a voltage drop/outage, whatever at some point or my watchdog prevented power from coming in, so in either event, the ATS bumped from the shore power circuit to the Genset, but did not bounce the circut back when shore power was available again. It still maybe at the PED, to me it’s going to be one of those things that I won’t be able to catch or test for. But the obvious that the watchdog read voltage and amps, but the Coach had no power for who knows how many days, leads me back to the ATS. I’ll switch out the ATS to the Progressive this week and if I can find room with the wires, a breaker as suggested. The second week of Sept I’ll be exclusively on Gen power as we are dry camping while salmon fishing. My hope is nothing happens, at all. It might tell me I have the coach solved. IDK, I’m simple minded and trying just to follow the current and what it’s doing. Thanks again and I’ll pull the Go Power ATS apart and post pics of what it all looks like. Maybe someone with a sharp eye can see something in its guts.

Thanks. I thought it was the other way around, when shore power isn’t available, the switch always defaults to Gen. So I was thinking that the switch “unconnected” for whatever reason, went back to generator input, and didn’t recognize that shore power was available again so never clicked back onto the shore power circuit.

So an update: After a great conversation with another member, we came to the conclusion that others did, the ATS. I put in and order for a new LYTE ATS and it’s sitting here in the box. In the mean time, been with the coach 2 times, and zero issues each time, until today. Arrived and Coach was dead. So instead of just going to breaker at PED and cycling it, I flipped on the watchdog app. This time there was voltage and amps on the readout. I believe this further solidifies that the ATS is kicking out and not making a solid connection. Thanks again for everyone’s help

Mine is in front driver side bay. Where the electrical is.

Exactly! He’s kinda at that point where he really could hire a crew to do the work and someone video and edit his stuff. He has such a good reputation and knowledge/skill set

I think he could make a lot of money doing a master class type of set up. I’d pay to learn how to do some of this stuff

Yep I watched the video last night

Just watched that last night. Coach was in good shape. It's an 09 though........... When things started to unravel for Monaco.

Yep electric flush. Took mine out when I redid the floor and put a gravity flush.

Well, I cannot give direct experience, but Henderson’s is right up the road and they have lots of experience with Monacos

Yes it is going to main 50 amp in panel. I’ll pick one up. What you discussed makes sense. Thanks Thanks that is absolutely where I stand right now. Headed back up Sunday with my tools to get in and see what the ATS looks like and see if anything is loose. The kicker to me is that it started with I work fine for 5-6 hours till we left. My step father was a lineman for many years and he said nothing worse than a self healing circuit.

Thanks for your input. So a manual selectable switch? I have one from battery to the Multiplus but not from the transfer switch To the Multiplus. I figured you’d just unplug/flip off breaker to the Coach or turn off the gen. Much easier than unlocking a bay door I reckoned, but if it’s needed can do

Thanks that’s it in a nutshell except the microwave isn’t separate, it’s in the breaker panel. Yes the power comes out the ATS and into the Multiplus and then straight to the breaker panel, then out to all the circuits in the Coach. My main rational was the clean power. You also get the luxury of plugging into just about any size outlet and the Multiplus will take battery storage and combine with the outlet to meet the load demand. No tripping 15 amp breakers in an friends house to run the microwave and watch tv Anyway, not sure it the way anyone else has done it, but it the way I went about doing it. It wasn’t hard. The hardest part was fishing wires up and down. The microwave had its own circut out the Xantrax, so I had to fish a new wire up and use a junction box to mate the two together in the back bay. I can take more pics if anyone is interested in how I set it up. thanks again and I all

For this reason I did splurge and buy my Multiplus 2 from the local dealer. And bought the wires, terminals, heat shrink, etc.. they’ve been there when I needed help programming.

Lots of builders go with Renology. I’m super partial to Victron for reliability, expansion, connectivity to other components and monitoring Go power is coming on strong in the market as a lot of new rv are coming with 300-400 watts solar and a 3000 inverter mostly for the 12v refers most manufacturers are using as standard equipment.

Good morn (almost 3 am, can’t sleep, wife threw on my goto sleep movies, Oceans 12) Anyway, sorry this thread is evolving. What I thought was simple might be more complicated. So on my system: Got rid of old mod sign wave Xantrax and replaced with A Multiple plus 2 from Victron. I rewired the coach to all run through the Victron. I wanted lithium was the reason for this upgrade, and that we have our phones, computers, and other stuff that likes clean power. I had to add Victron DC/DC charger for the batteries preferred charging. I have only a shunt and a Bluetooth dongle to read the Multiplus. A Cerbo sits in the box till I find some time to get data cable back down out of inside of Coach to the electrical bay.( I have 40x40 shop in trying for permits, yeah! A place to work on my coach) I currently have a single Chins 200ah smart battery (smart is just heated) I went with it because it was the only heated battery at the time. This all went into service in Aug 2021 and has been trouble free up to this, well minus the wiggle when DC/DC charger is on and genny is on. So both trying to charge the battery and the Multiplus doesn’t like it. One thing I just caught that John said was derating the breakers. If my memory is right, the main reason I ditched the block heater, other than I can just plug Coach into an outlet. Was wires were short in length so one set of receptacles is on the old microwave circuit. And thus microwave is now on the old block heater. I believe that the wires coming out of old inverter matched the breakers in the panel on amps, but will double check. I had the Multiplus in “normal” mode on the actual unit, and charger only on the app. After the first shut down, I went out and put her unit in charger only physically. The unit had zero faults on it or in the app. The Victron showed no power coming in when the shutdown was occurring, while like mentioned the watchdog showed only volts. I tried the 30 amp plug in the ped, turned the Victron down to 30 o the input, but same thing happened. Talked to the Host again. As I mentioned when we first showed up, the watchdog wouldn’t let us use the 50 amp receptacle, just the 30. He replaced the breaker. Our last conversation was not productive as I mentioned the new issue, and that my coach was freaking on both receptacles. He mentioned he replaced the 30 receptacle and the ped is fine and telling me we need to get a longer cord and run it to a different site to check it out. I said well it’s not “fine” because the previous guy who wintered in the site caught the ped on fire. He claimed it was just his power cord from his Trailer to the ped had melted because the tenant had his wiring wrong. I knew enough after reading that an open circuit had occurred and that’s when we decided to leave our coach unplugged until resolved. I texted him yesterday to let him know it might be on my coach, and not to get too heated up on the ped. Plan currently (pun intended) is to go back up late Sunday and tighten everything up in the Watchdog and ATS, probably take the both out and open them up and look inside for damage that has been talked about on this thread. Sorry I haven’t had time to read through everyone’s posts, I really appreciate everyone’s help. Anyway, back to trying to sleep and off to work

Thanks very much. This thought is where I started. The Row I’m in is full. The guy next to me now when I pulled in is on fire with tech! A sprinter pulling a travel trailer both Victroned up to the hilt. He’s got Starlink, couple pep waves and drawing lots of current for a 30 amp service, but who knows. This row shared the same distribution panel. The park is old, the power poles for when it was overhead to each site are still there The Victron is picky. I mentioned before it freaks when I run the genny going down the road with the DC/DC charger in. I get the power ripple/wiggle whatever they call it. But again zero issues when we left.

I’ll read this latter, when I can slow down, but I re-wired it all. I need to go back and follow my work. I pulled out the 2 runs from the old inverter (1 circuit of plugs the other microwave). Everything runs from the transfer switch to the Multiplus 2 and out to breaker box. So both legs go straight to the 50 amp main and out to everything. Got rid of block heater and that run goes to microwave now. I’ll be able to Sit down and go through pics. I posted all my work on here under the upgrades topics. I’ll look through that as well

I’ll have to go back, that’s a good question. My Victron isn’t just the outlets, it runs everything now. I didn’t have anything on other than the tv,microwave, fridge, washer which like you mentioned are on plugs.

Yeah there is always voltage shown on the watchdog, no matter what’s going on. The coach goes dead, it shows voltage but no amps, then comes “back to life” and the amps are back up showing. I’ll tear into the ATS and see what’s loose or nasty. I appreciate your insight and help

Right around the corner from me. Great people . They weren’t around when I did mine so I have the steel one

All good, it just didn’t sound like me. I don’t get shook about things like I used to.

Will do, I’ll take pics as I’m digging into it. BTW Did someone change the title of my topic? 😂 I don’t recall writing such a dramatic post title