Willie B
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… A big thumbs up to youOk, the weekend was full of fuckery. Still had to finish making things presentable, and also test the actual function of the inverters on grid, generator and battery usage. The coach really isn't a boondocks type of rig...damn fridge is a Kenmoore SxS with icemaker...nicer than what's in my kitchen.
At night, the system powered up, basically just running the fridge, drew roughly 1% per hour. Now, the coach had two solar maintainers. They had both been wired to the chassis batteries. One was toast. With the other, the batteries stayed fine for 3 weeks, no kill switch. This is also parked where the solar panels get no sun until 1ish. After looking at the setup the previous owner had put up, I decided to run the other, new, maintainer to the coach bank. The average draw for the coach is about 125 Watts. In full sun, the state of charge dropped 1% every 2+ hours. (And yes, floated the idea for big solar to owner. He's had a couple heavy hits this season, so it's a maybe for next season...that's when I do a patented "chicken call")
Saturday, started to button things up. It had headlamp issues...and marker light issues...we'll come back to that. The body shop didn't finish the lights. In fact, they mixed up the L and R's, so when they did work, they sucked. Figured out the wheel controller was failing as well, so bypassed the HL control on the wheel. Relays and tapping wires. Still no markers. Fuse popped, so have a short...actually, a herd. Many wires crossed by a body man. But still had a short. Super Bowl Sunday, I was thrashing...owner to arrive Tuesday
About midnight last night, I think I figured it out. This coach had lost the rear right corner, as well as the rear cap, in a large blowout. I narrowed down where the short is, and it's where one may have used wood screws to hold the rear structure...shit. It was 30 degrees, he'll be here in 12 hours...shit. When he text me from Sky Harbor, I gave him the bad news. He was fine with it. He planned on day running, and stop and turns worked, and HL's if needed.
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He showed up here at 1. We went through how and what everything does. He'd never had the slides out! He was super happy. From here, it was going to pick up his buggy in Mesa, then Tucson. Tomorrow morning, off to Glamis for a week.
He was asking about infielding at the NASCAR race...he likes to have fun!
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