Sarah,
You have had 2 months to respond to my any one of my texts, emails or voice messages, to discuss this in a rational manner. Instead, you have chosen to publicly slander my friend and me by accusing us of lying. You stated that everything Ken said was untrue. Untrue!
First of all there has never been any discussion about Ken being unable to fix it. I hired a "professional" just so that he would not HAVE to do it, since he was completely swamped with his own work at the time. You have twisted that innocent statement into a lie for the eyes of the public alone. You both know the truth.
It was NOT Ken who "shorted out a bunch of things"; it was Jones. Ken never worked on it until he was forced to fix Jones's mistakes. It was serious. When I told Jones that the 110 would not shut off in the coach when the new breaker he installed was "off". He told me that it was "supposed to be that way, and that the batteries were always running and they were running the 110." Since this made no sense to me, I asked him to clarify, and he blamed it on the batteries I had installed. Then he blamed it on the converter I supplied, and still he did not simply check his work.
When the batteries were installed, there appeared to be no problem until the RV engine was started, at which time Ken discovered that Jones RV had grounded the positive wire coming from the battery isolator. When the engine was started that grounded wire caused the voltage regulator to burn out. It could have caused a fire. It could have burned my RV to the ground! It was an emergency so Ken fixed it. Ken did not short out anything, all he did was attach the batteries in exactly the way that Jones said to do it. Even I know how to hook up batteries. The mistake was made by Jones.
On to other problems.
After Ken fixed the above mistake, he looked at the circuit breakers and discovered 3 additional issues, any of which could have caused a fire. The first one was based on my original complaint that when the circuit breakers were off the RV outlets were still live, which Jones totally ignored. Ken found that Jones had placed the hot wire from the shore power on the same terminal as the hot wire feeding the outlets, thereby bypassing the breaker completely. (This can result in a catastrophic fire if any plugged-in appliance shorted out.) Also, Jones had wired the output terminal of the first breaker to the input terminal of the second breaker, thereby making the 2nd breaker dependent on the first breaker for power. To compound the problem, the jumper wire he used to do this was a stranded wire instead of the single strand heavy gauge wire that was needed. The stranded wire made it impossible to clamp both wires tightly enough to the terminal (another potential for fire). So Ken fixed that by replacing the stranded wire with a piece of solid wire, which Jones should have done in the first place.
When I called Jones to come back, they did not check their work, which is what anyone else would have done. Instead he blamed the batteries, he blamed the converter, and he blamed Ken, when Ken had nothing to do with it, until I had to call him in to fix the problem Jones created.
Also the photograph shows how conscientious he was in arranging the wiring. For what I paid him, he could have done a less sloppy job.
Anybody can make mistakes. If Jones had bothered to check his own work he would have found it, and he might even have been able to fix it without me ever knowing he made a mistake. He never even looked at it. Instead he that if want the 110 to be off in the coach, I had to unplug from shore power. I had to confirm this with him several times, since it just didn't sound right to me. But he insisted, even suggesting I acquire a battery shut off switch to mitigate the problem of the 110 still being live with the breakers shut off. Even I know that the breakers should shut everything off. Jones treated me like a blithering idiot, and there was just no talking to him. All these errors were made by Jones, not Ken. And they could have killed me!!!
And now all you can do is make up some story about me being afraid of Ken. Ken had nothing to do with this other than to fix Jones's mistakes.
I don't know the full extent of what he told you, Sarah, but it was not the truth. read more