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Have you considered having your present sofa recovered. We did like you and looked all over for something new to fit in our 03 Allure. New were too expensive and often not the correct length. Finally had ours recovered. The wife is very happy with the end result plus, she was able to have her dining room chairs recovered with the same fabric as the sofa to match. Overall it was considerably cheaper than any of the new stuff we looked at. Bill 03 Country Coach, 32' Allure

Again thank you all for your thoughts. I certainly never expected to generate so much discussion on my problem/situation. Thanks again. Rich, thanks for the detailed explanation of how to go about checking the wiring/circuits. I will need to go get my coach again and bring it back to the house, then arrange use of a space before I can run the tests you suggest. I think it will be interesting to see what I may find and would also be nice to correct a possible problem. Bill

Hello again. I'll try to answer all the questions. We live in a senior sub-division near CDA, not a commercial RV park. Management has put in RV electric hookups so owners guests can have a place close by to plug into when visiting. They recently updated the facility so there are more plug ins available for guests. I believe the manager independently decided to place the GFI breakers at each of the pedestals, so the user can turn them on/off while hooking up their RV, also as a precaution to cover his self from being blamed for any electrical failure to an RV (possibly over cautious). There are 50 & 30 amp plugs available at each pedestal. All have a GFI breaker. I have tried using both the 30 & 50 amp plugs for my coach. The breakers on the GFIs trip prior to the surge guard completing it require checks. The manager did mention the 50 amp GFI breakers were very spendy when I was asking question regarding why the coach tripped the breakers on his plugs while mine at the house does not. I do not have a GFI in my home 50 amp breaker. The house was originally wire for a welder, I just changed it over to be used for the RV and didn't see the need for the GFI. To date I believe our coach is the only one that has reported the problem. In the past I was able to plug our old coach in without a problem. Our current coach is relatively new to us but is older, so I am running into something I haven't experienced previously. Yes, we have plugged our coach in at camp grounds from AZ to ID without experiencing this problem. As to turning off the surge guard, is that possible. Mine is an older model, a TRC RV HW-50 surge guard. I've talked with tech support as mentioned previously and they no longer have any literature on my model surge guard. There is a "key" available, although I've not tried turning it to the off position. I assumed that turning off the key would turn off the incoming power to the guard? I believe I've answered all the questions. I have sent a request for info to TRC's tech support asking about the key switch. The coach has already been moved back to storage, so no way to plug it into power or check the "key" switch until I bring it back to the house again. Again thank you all for your comments and assistance. Bill

Another Update: I just gt off the phone with TRC Tech Support. The tech tells me that it is normal for my TRC Surge Guard to trip a GFCI breaker. Apparently while the surge guard is going through its normal checks there is a small amount of feedback on the circuit that will cause a GFCI breaker to trip. So it seems I do not have a problem and cried wolf. Sorry about that. I do certainly appreciate everyone's assistance/help. Bill

Brett & Herman thanks for the quick replys. So Herman, now that you say you're "stand corrected" does that mean you think I may have a ground problem and need to look further at connections on my 50 amp side? I am still trying to figure out if there is really a problem or I am spinning my wheels for no reason. Bill

Update which creates a new related question. Okay, I brought the coach home to the house and plugged it into my home 50 amp circuit. After approx 2 minutes and 16 sec the surge protector activated. While the system was running through its self check, the surge guard line 1 was blinking. The system then activated and the blinking stopped. I went to the park manger, who is also an experienced electrician explained what happened when I plugged into his pedestals and also that the coach seems to be working correctly using my home 50 amp plug. He then asked if my home 50 amp circuit had its own GFI built into the breaker. My home breakers does not, however, his do. He says that is why my coach causes his breaker to shut down, and I may have a ground problem in the coach. I don't recall if most RV park hookups/plugs are GFI protected at the circuit breaker or not. So now I am curious if I may actually have a ground problem in my coacht. Any expert opinions?? Thanks for any input. Bill

Thank you all for your input. It looks like my next step is to bring the coach back to the house and try to isolate where the problem is. More after I get it home and solve my problem. Thanks again. Bil

Maybe I just need to bring the coach home to my own power and run a time check. I recently plugged into a location where my Hughes Autoformer checked the power as okay. However, plugging in the coach, with or without the autoformer, at four different pedestals blew their 50 amp breaker before my coach surge guard would activate. My surge guard is an older TRC HW-50 amp, so doesn't have a screen to monitor time on its countdown. Bill

Thanks Bill. Are you saying the 3-5 minute delay is normal in many surge guards? Bill

I have a question regarding a problem I seem to have with our coach electrical. Whenever I plug the coach into commercial power, it often takes several minutes before I hear the power come on in the coach. How do I determine if the slow responder is my power transfer switch or my built in surge guard? Everything seems to operate normally with the generator. I've heard 3-5 minutes for the power to switch on in a coach can be normal. Is that correct?

Hello ColdCowboy. If Anchortown is a bit too much of a drive, you might consider heading down to Whitehorse. When we lived in Fairbanks, I had to take our coach into Anchorage for alignment work, I was able to have our work done at the Goodyear shop. If Anchorage is out, then there are a couple larger truck facilities in Whitehorse that do good work. There's a Kenworth (I believe) dealer at the top of the hill, near the main intersection, who helped us with our Safari and later Country Coach. Google says it's 337 miles down to Whitehorse, which is closer then Anchorage. William Brown aka - aksafariman 06 Beaver Monterey Laguna IV