jeffthom20 wrote: Checked with our engineering department and they gave me some ideas for you to explore:
1. Have the converter checked first
2. Have the ground wire leading from the converter checked
3. The Fluorescent light Ballast might be going bad.
4. The floorplan might have some bearing on this wiring issue
5. Does this issue occur when the TV is receiving from the air, cable, sator DVD?
Unfortunately these are not easy ones to find. I suggest you contact Newmar's retail service rep. at 800.731.8300. Unless service has changed you do not need to take it to a Newmar dealer, although please check with our service rep first.
Thank you,
Newmar
Jeff -
THANK YOU! I'll have these items checked, however it may be a week or so until we are able to get someone to do this for us, since I'm not able to do all of these items myself - when it comes to electrical things, I can turn a switch on or off but that's about it.
Overall, we are enjoying our new Kountry Aire very much. It will probably be a couple years from now, but I'm already loking forward to our next Newmar purchase.
I have called Newmar several times previously, at the telephone number you suggested. The standard response that I've received is to contact my dealer -- hence my frustration of being on a merry-go-round of making repeated telephone calls with no solution. Perhaps, I need to be more specific, or more demanding, when I call Newmar in the future.
I would like to add, however, that we stopped at the Newmar factory in Nappannee for some emergency service a couple days before Memorial Day weekend while en route from our dealer in New York to Montana. (One slide out had a significant water leak, another slide out had the worng type of rollers installed in it which were abraiding and leaving grease on the carpet, dirty rollers were pulvarizing the ceramic floor tile, halogen lights were falling from the ceiling, and other items.) Although we did not have an appointment, a service team was made available to work on our traler for an entire day, and fixed all significant items. A GREAT NEWMAR EXPERIENCE!
I just wish that Newmar would handle more of a customer's service concerns directly through company customer service (such as done by other RV manufacturers) rather than suggesting a customer to return to an imcompetent dealer, even for minor service issues.
Hope to meet you when we're in Nappannee next time.
We had somewhat similar electrical problems over Mem Day. Some dummy (me??) had installed the battery backwards. This blew two 40-A fuses right in the middle of the converter marked "Fuses for reversed battery" which leads me to believe that I might not be the first or last to do this.
Also, a former RV guy told me he's seen plenty of rigs come in from the factory with the batteries installed backward. It's hard to miss how to do it now that I've done it wrong.
2000 Silverado, 6.0L, Longbed
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Many of the new units come with pretty high-end electronics some of which are very sensative to voltage fluctuations. You can get a small UPS (uninteruptable power supply) from Radio Shack for around $60-80 that will make many annoying electronic issues disappear.
Does this happen with the antenna or cable/Satellite? Is it all lights or just one? Is it one all channels or just channels 2-6? Let us know and we can get this fixed for you. If using cable/satellite are you turning off the switch that powers the antenna amplifier?
dvdriz wrote: Does this happen with the antenna or cable/Satellite? Is it all lights or just one? Is it one all channels or just channels 2-6? Let us know and we can get this fixed for you. If using cable/satellite are you turning off the switch that powers the antenna amplifier?
It is happening with our Dish 500 ground mounted satellite hook-up that we are using now, and appears to be happening whenever any of the 12v lights are turned on (we have LOTS of them - probably 50 in total). The place where we stay in Montana does not have cable, and the 2-3 stations that we might sometimes be able to get on the antenna are so fuzzy that I couldn't say whether there is a problem with an antenna usage or not.
I'm not sure what you're reference point is with channel 2-6, since these are not ones we get with our satellite video programming, but it seems there is the same problem with all of the channels we get programming on (200+ channels)
I do not believe we have an antenna amplifier switch, per se, or at least that's what we were told when we got the walkthrough of the trailer at the dealer we bought it from. However, we do have a Weingard switch box but with no instructions for it's use - it has lots of buttons for 3 TVs (although we only have 2 presently, and have not been able to get satellite programming on 1 of them yet), satellite, DVD, VCR, cable, and includes buttons for antenna's for each TV -- we do not have any of these antenna buttons pushed on while we are watching TV hooked up to our satellite - just the satellite button pushed in for that TV.
OK what I was searching for is if you are using a low channel on the TV, such as channel 3 or 4, to tune into the satellite receiver's output. In other words what channel is your television tuned to? Interference on a low channel and not higher channels usually indicates a bad shield connection on a coax cable. The shield will act like an antenna when not grounded correctly and pick up noise sources such as a low voltage balast. I would try to run a cable directly from the satellite receiver to one of your televisions to see if this clears the problem up. Most RV manufacturers use the wrong coax type, high loss, for satellite signals and a poor installation will quickly complicate the problem.
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