Battery Disconnect Switch - Event Date: 16 Dec 2017

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Originally posted by rawest50 Since I am electrically dumb. If you install a battery disconnect switch what service does it perform? When would you use it?

If you store your Pod somewhere you can't plug in, the batteries will be dead in a very short time, due to phantom draws.. so this saves your battery. There are other reasons a owner may want one, but that's the main reason.

Guess someone has to ask.. Teddy, have you double checked your meter?

From experience mind ya, when I don't get a reading I expect, I double check I'm set right on the DMM then check a known of same power source.

Also, your looking for only 5v DC at the USB port.

Hate to say it.. no wiring diagram exists for any pod. The only good thing is nothing is very far apart in a Pod..

TEDDY, you will have to just manually trace the wires. I do not know which USB outlet FR is using now, but you should be able to back probe the connections with a DMM, behind the connector. You can also use a couple needles, and pierce the wires, and then probe them with a DMM if needed.

In all honesty, it may be better and easier to just run a new wire.

If you have any other plates/connections/hookups in that wall, open them and see if you can then see where the wires feeding the USB plate is cut into the wiring. It is probably a branch circuit, and not wired all the way back to the fuse panel.

Speaking of power - there is no voltage on the USB charging ports on the wall below the TV in my 2017 178.  I bought a tester and it says there is no voltage, confirming the fact that our phones will not charge when plugged into them, and the lightning bolt does not appear in the battery location on the phone home screens.  This is true whether on shore, battery or both.