ALMOST LOST MY MONTANA

[dsprik]

Hope everyone was OK. That's a devastating thing to have happen. Prariepoodle can attest to that. Let us know.

[lightningjack11]

Mobill

Thanks for the info. It seems when it rains it pours.

First I posted about my burnt wires under my kitchen cabinets and then Prairiepoodle posted a few weeks later. Now your report comes in.

I would advise everyone to routinely check the shore power line to make sure it is not heating up. My shore plug was very warm so I decided to start investigating it. Also I was blowing my home groundfault. I found burnt wires in a junction box and it looked like fire was the next thing. Route cause was wires rubbing the wall in a hole opening. A wooden drawer was just an inch away.
It was a minor fix just to redress and clean the wiring but if it had caught fire around the wood my trailer would have been destroyed in minutes.

[richfaa]

We noted on our tour of the Montana Factory in Oct of this year that the openings in the frame where wires ran through were insulated so that they would not rub which seemed logical to us as these things are constantly moving around.We were shocked to learn that prariepoodles unit was NOT insulated and the apparently the earlier models, don't know how early, are not insulated. This is indeed a dangerous situation and everyone should be checking their units and insulating where necessary. In fact Keystone should be issuing a safety bulletin or even a recall on that issue.

[Charlie]

I had the 110V supply to the kitchen slide pinched between the frame and the grounding bolt for the fridge. The insulation was broken with the hot side melted to the grounding bolt. Good thing the breaker and GFIC did their job. I checked every circuit and plug inside before I realized the problem was outside so problems can occur other than where wires pass through the frame.

[lightningjack11]

On mine,in the kitchen, there is a hard rubber gromet which does nothing to prevent rubbing.