Awake: 5:00am Temp 56 sleep 5+38 early rain, then clearing
overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I drive to the community center & exercise for 45 min. Then join the
Koffee Klub for 1.1 hrs.
Early afternoon, I call the Hartford Insurance Co. & insure the Lexus for
approx 2 weeks.
Then I call Pen Diesel in Bedford, PA & make an appointment for 27th of
September.
Since we dry camped (parked using battery power) in Manitoba, Canada 2
weeks ago, either our battery bank or our inverter has been acting
strange. The bank of batteries doesn’t power the inverter circuit. In
other words, if we are not plugged into shore power or running the
generator, we don’t have any 120 volts of electricity, only 12 volts DC.
So while we traveled back from Manitoba to Minot, neither the refrigerator
nor the microwave had electrical power. That’s not so bad really if the
refrigerator/freezer doors are not being opened too much. Now from Minot
to Sioux Falls, that’s a different story as that run was slightly over 9
hrs. Of course, when we did park @ a campground overnight, we used the
site shore power & everything in the coach was powered as normal + the
refrigerator did cool/freeze back to normal temps. Our longest run without
powering our refrigerator was over 12 hrs & neither of us felt comfortable
about that. This brief introduction leads into the: hope-to-fix-it-soon
story.
This is how the problem developed: during our time on the Oskar farm in
Canada, I accidentally left the battery bank discharge too far…(hey, we
had a party going on) & that caused the Statpower to shut down & indicate
by LCD of a fault of 006. I didn’t try any troubleshooting in Canada but
during the afternoon in Minot the next day & before the rain, using my
manual, I ran through the procedures for a “reset” without any luck.
Now in Nicktown with a little spare time after the picnic, I call the
experts @ Newell in Oklahoma. 1st I talk with Charlie, then Ron about our
inverter glitch. Making reference to my Statpower manual, Ron theorizes a
different reset condition & runs through the troubleshooting techniques
with me using our cordless phone. I carried out the reset plan to his
minute specifications…..then I had to wait for 30 min before bringing the
battery bank back on line to finalize the reset. I felt uncomfortable
having Ron stay on the phone line that long with my problem; he felt sure
his latest technique would fix the problem, so I thanked him for his time
& patience & hung up. I actually waited a little more than 30 min, like
the next day to do the test without Kathy being in the motorhome…. & then
the test failed. Ugh! Maybe tomorrow, we’ll try again. Oh, by the way,
Kathy spent the afternoon visiting the Foote Family in Indiana.
7:20 dinner: Leftover colony mountain chili with fruit salad.
Nothing of interest to watch tonight so we both do some light reading.
Today’s High=68 Lights out: 10:33pm
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