Electrical power center for recreational vehicles

Claim 1

A unitary power center for recreational vehicles comprising: a cabinet having a front door, top and bottom walls, and flange means for mounting the cabinet within a recreational vehicle with said front door substantially flush with an interior surface of the recreational vehicle; an a.c. circuit breaker box mounted in the cabinet with a space remaining in the cabinet, said space constituting a compartment for an a.c. converter unit, said box adapted to be connected to an a.c. power cable for connection to an external a.c. power source, said box including a front panel closing the box and including a plurality of a.c. circuit breakers each resettable from the front panel; an a.c. converter unit comprising a chassis carrying a stepdown transformer and means for rectifying the output of said transformer to provide low-voltage d.c., said unit being removably mounted in said compartment and adapted for being pulled out of said compartment after opening of said door; said a.c. circuit breaker box being interconnected by a detachable flexible input cable to said unit to supply a.c. power thereto, said cable being of sufficient length to permit substantial removal of said converter unit from the compartment and subsequent disconnection of said interconnecting cable; a receptacle removably mounted in a wall of the cabinet; a flexible, detachable output cable extending from the converter unit to said receptacle and supplying low-voltage d.c. power thereto, said output cable being of sufficient length to permit substantial removal of said converter unit from said compartment, said receptacle adapted to supply low-voltage d.c. power via-respective d.c. circuits to various d.c. loads carried by the recreational vehicle and interconnected to said receptacle by plug and cable conductors; and means, mounted within said cabinet and accessible when said front door is open, for breaking such d.c. circuit in response to overload in the respective d.c. circuit.