Life on the road

Flameout (without the flames). Total power outage.

Sitting around Monday evening, big clunk, all the lights go out. Looked out the window to see how much of the park was dark and we were the only part. Went outside and flipped the 50 amp breaker; no difference. Still dark. Crawled inside the slide drawer cabinet underneath the coach to reset the inverter; that helped. Lights came back on. Checked the electrical status display. The shore power is on, but no amps are flowing. Doesn’t look like it’s a problem at the outside source, but just to check, I tagged down from our 50 amp plug to a 30 amp plug and connected it to the 30 amp socket at our electrical box. No difference. New problem. When I opened the outside cabinet where the electrical cord connects, there was that dreaded burnt electrical smell.

Checked the power a different way. Started the generator. Watched the electrical status. No change. No connection to the power source whether it is shore power or generator.

We have battery power, but no way to recharge the batteries when they run out, so we’re being very careful with the electrons we have left. We had a dark night Monday night. Tuesday, the mobile repair guy found the fried connector in the electrical cord cabinet. Ordered the part. Replaced the bank of house batteries. We knew that was coming; the batteries are two and a half years old. One was leaking.

New batteries but still no way to recharge them, so another dark night. Wednesday. The part will be delivered tomorrow. Repair guy hooked up a battery charger for us today so we can use the juice tonight. Tomorrow. We’ll see.

Life on the road.