Saturday, March 24, 2018

Progress continues!

On Friday, we drove Miss Doozie down to the parking lot outside Aaron's Solar Penny store. There we met up with Mike Isley of Fiesta Mobile RV Repair to do some additional work on the electrical systems.
Parked in the lot, getting serviced

Beautiful sunset!
We ended up spending the night in the area of the parking lot - sometime in the past few weeks, our headlight switch stopped working. We tested various fuses and have not found any that are a problem, so we think it is the switch. We ordered a headlight switch at O'Reilly's Friday evening, and it is to arrive on Saturday, but we didn't want to drive back to Michael and Tami's without lights (we have daytime running lights, and the brake and turn signals work, but the dash lights, headlights, tail lights, and headlight buzzer do not).
This is the switch that we think may be bad - it visually looks like a 1988 Caprice switch, which is what we ordered at O'Reilly's.

Boondocking in the parking lot gave us the opportunity to try out the display on the remote for the new inverter. During the night, I got up and checked the batteries several times and they were always in good shape! Hurrah! We can let the refrigerator run overnight without worrying about the batteries!!!

Some additional pictures from the roof....
I posted about drilling the holes for the clevis pins a couple of days ago (http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2018/03/continuing-on-with-some-tasks.html).

Looking toward the back of the bus - you can see one of the hinged sides with clevis pin, and then the back panel is not hinged.

Looking forward on the roof - the closest panel to me was the rear-most one which is fixed in place... then 3 that are hinged, and then 2 in the front which are also fixed in place (it is hard to distinguish the front 3 apart from each other in this picture).
We're moving along. We will meet with Aaron from Solar Penny when his shop closes at 2pm this afternoon for him to go through the system and check it out.

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