Yahoo Message Number: 23006 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/23006)
I accidentaly shorted out one of my 2 cigarete lighter-12 volt power outlets a month ago.
I looked in the manual and located the fuseboxes (3 of them) under the Freightliner dash in the center on my Country Coach 370 DS 2004'.
Each lighter has its own fuse One lighter has a dedicated circut the other (the lower outlet) with a thing the fusebox label calls a DRG.
So on the fusebox is pwr outlet for the top lighter and pwr outlet/DRG for the bottom lighter.
By process of elimination ( pulled the fuse on the good lighter) I was directed to the "supposedly" bad fuse. I pulled it out and was going to replace it and I saw the fuse part was intact and looked fine. I thought maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.
I flip flopped the fuses and the top lighter still worked so I know the fuse is good.
Both fuses are good but I have lost the power to my lower lighter/outlet.
Each uses a 30 amp fuse. I am worried what the meaning of DRG ( I think that what I remember) means. I can do without one extra lighter-power outlet for a while but I am worried what the DRG is and since it starts with the letter D I worry it might mean diesel something.
I would hate to loose power to something like the air intake dryer or something that controls motor performance.
Most lighters I have ever seen have dedicated circuts. This is a suprise to me for the lighter to share a circut.
Anyway, it appears that there is a poor connector/connection somewhere between my battery and the wire running to the fuse that controls the bottom lighter-outlet.
I just wonder if any one esle ever ran accross this and if so where I might look for the termination of said wire.
Gosh knows how many connectors there are between the main connection to the battery and the wire that runs to the fusebox that supplies this one lighter.
The wire color is orage with a thin pink stripe on it.
I went to access.freightliner.com to download some wiring diagrams but none of the links work under the EzWiring icon.
I have the free access and their are 3 modes. Free/$50 a year /Dealer only so I assume that might be why. I will spend $50 in a hearbeat to get in there but I can't find that option now that I am registered. It says hello coley and takes me right to the juicy stuff.
If anyone has any idea a) how many connectors are there between the dash and batt connector b) which ones are exposed to road debris and water off the road. This coach sat at a RV park on the Atlantic ocean side and got a lot of salty air even the rust/corrsion patterns match the coach being parked in a certain dicection.
One poster on RV.net thought there was another fuse eslewhere. That is possible but like I said lighters a normaly dedicated circuts and it is less than rare for any dealer to place one fuse after another, that is unless the 1st fuse in the line of 2 is larger that the 2nd.
Again this is a 30 amp fuse that "DID NOT" blow, had there been another fuse designed into the system it would need to be larger as in 40 or 50 amp, then your getting into the big blade fuses.
It just doesn't make sense. I noticed that Freightliner or Coachmen one likes to use these snap on gizmos (the way you see wires attached to boat trailer lights) and those merely cut into the wire to make a connection. Corrosion is that styles worst enemy.
Oh well I think I have over described my problem but I would apreciate any input from anyone thats a tad familiar with Freightliner wiring.
Thanks
Coley
Yahoo Message Number: 23011 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/23011)
Hello
Recently bought an '04 Allure 40'-3slides and still "finding my way".
Regards,
Ken Bradshaw
NE TN
Yahoo Message Number: 23018 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/23018)
Re: [Country-Coach-Owners] helloWelcome. We're relatively new here too. Lots of good info.
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Sue
'05-42' Allure #31254
Yahoo Message Number: 23021 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/23021)
We just recently bought an '06 Allure and are still trying to figure everything out. I've found the CC Group page to be a great help in most instances. I noticed you signed as NE TN. We live on the east coast in central Florida and relocated here about 2 years ago from northeast Tennessee, Johnson City to be exact. We were up there the past 3 weeks and have just returned.
Mike Huff
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