[rohrmann]

The way most of them are set up is, the positive wire comes off the battery and goes to either one of the breakers on the back wall of the battery area. It then jumpers over to the other breaker. One of the breakers have several small wires coming off of it, going to the propane detector, the hydraulic control panel, and several other things. Coming off the other breaker, there are usually two wires, color doesn't matter, and one goes to the hydraulic pump motor via the reversing switch, and the other disappears but is going to the battery disconnect switch, usually in the convenience center. From that switch, that wire goes to the 12 volt side of your inside electric panel.


A lot of power goes through that breaker, both directions, but when setting up or breaking down, your hydraulic motor is working hard and many times is exceeding the amp rating of the factory installed breaker, which has been a 50 amp breaker. The fix for that is to follow the recommendation of Lippert, the people who made and designed the system, to install an 80 amp breaker.


This is a photo of what I have in our rig now. Where the new 80 amp breaker is was the same breaker that is on the right, and the jumper between them is connected to the incoming side of both breakers. The reason both large wires can be connected to the load side of the 80 amp breaker is that you aren't operating things inside the rig when setting up and extending the slides and jacks. Once set up, then you are inside, running the various things on the 12 volt side. A photo of what you have in your rig would be very helpful to help you figure out what is happening with your setup.