Univolt system

[Stefandmissy]

We have a 66 Caravel and my question to you is that if you run your battery down, is there a point to where it affects the two circuit transformer in a fashion that will not allow the "city power" mode not to work?

[Aage]

Originally Posted by Stefandmissy

We have a '66 Caravel and my question to you is that if you run your battery down, is there a point to where it affects the two circuit transformer in a fashion that will not allow the "city power" mode not to work?

I -think- I understand you, and my guess is no. When we bought our '74 Sov, it had NO battery, and we ran the usual things (furnace, lights, water pump, WH etc) just fine for over a year.

We then replaced the Univolt, and the results were the same (minus the Univolt hum) for another year with no battery.

What do you mean by "the two circuit transformer", by the way?

[Stefandmissy]

I am refering to the box that has two togel switches that go from city power to trailer battery power.

[Stefandmissy]

Oh, By the way, I'm a two rivit Member but you are a Moderater. What is a moderater?

[DKB_SATX]

Originally Posted by Stefandmissy

Oh, By the way, I'm a two rivit Member but you are a Moderater. What is a moderater?

We (the moderators) are a group of volunteers who help to run these forums by assisting other members with technical issues on the forums, watching for spammers and scammers on the forums and the classifieds and dealing with disputes and violations of our Community Rules. Other than that we're Airstreamers one and all.

[RM66caravel]

Hey Stefandmissy the answer is no but the univolt in ours no longer worked anyway so as we go along we are replacing it. Check the input circuit breaker comming into the caravel (ours was in the curbside closet) and the shore power breaker to insure that you have power. The shore power battery power switch determines weather you 12 volt power is comming from the transformer or the battery. I am assuming that the univolt is plugged in and the fuse is good. The AC is feed into the breaker box from the shore power outlet and distributed to the trailer through breakers that are in that box in the closet. Hope that this helps.
Cliff