Plugging into (GFCI) shore power

[stewartfan]

This weekend I dug out the camper for another season of camping.
Here is a little bit of background of what is happening.

When I plug the camper into a GFCI outlet (in the garage) it trips. This is something I have done before, plugging the camper in the garage that is. I use a 30 to 15 amp adapter to plug it in the outlet.
So I turned off all the circuit breakers in the camper, reset and plugged the camper in the garage. And turned each circuit breaker on one by one. I found out that it is the circuit breaker for the converter trips the GFCI outlet in the garage.

The next step I plugged the camper into a non-GFCI outlet in the garage, turned on the circuit breaker for the converter. All is well. All the 12 volt appliances and lights work fine, with the entire 12 volt appliance turned off I have 12.8 – 13.0 volts at the battery. So I assuming I’m charging OK.

Thoughts ?

[Nascarcamping]

I had something like this happen before, it was not my camper but rather a faulty gfi swiitch.

for me it was mt switch in the backyard deck, because they where wired together, cant remember the exact story but it drove me crazy trying to figure that one out, make sure any other gfi switches are okay outside.

[ToyotaFan]

we had the same thing happen on our pool outlet. It was a faulty GFCI receptacle.

[JimmieJohnson]

I think I read somewhere that you cant have 2 GFCI on the same circuit so if you have a GFCI in your camper that might be the problem.

[stewartfan]

Up date:

I tried to plug it back in the GFCI today.....It all works well now..

Do you think some moisture was in the converter?

[MASTERTECH]

the main issue with gfi outlets is they look for a ground to neutral if power is detected thru the gfi on the ground or neutral it trips and some convetors mainly soild state ones have the ground and neutral hooked together internally which is not a problem until there is some moisture present until the moisture evaporates once the convertor warms up the problem goes away. just avoid plugging your rig into gfi outlets i would have a 30 amp outlet installed that way you have to go reset the breaker in the house when its overload

[stewartfan]

Thanks for all of your input, I appreciate it very much.