A minor misadventure...

I mentioned in the last post that the power converter, all of fourteen years old, failed and we were without 12v power. Not a problem as we had shore power and the important appliances (AC and frig) work on the 120v system. And once we were underway home, all the 12v lights run off the truck and not from the trailer's marine battery.

However, I am not an electrician and still haven't quite got my head wrapped around the idea of two separate electrical systems joined at the power converter. I do know enough to have done a thorough search for fuses and actually replaced all I could find, "find" being the operative word here. And when I called repair shop near the campground, they assured me there was not danger, just a little inconvenience, in the power converter being out.

So as soon as I got home, I called Americamp in Ramseur and arranged to bring them the trailer. As they are typically about 2 weeks behind and I had another trip planned, I raced to get it there--so fast that I sort of failed to check the freezer compartment in the frig while unpacking. Sigh.

They replaced the power converter only to discover two things 1. that the power converter was not the problem (yet the new one works so much better that I suspect the old one was ready to go and I do not begrudge the repair), rather it was a loose wire and 2. they discovered the pack of hamburger I failed to remove from the freezer compartment. After it exploded. Sigh. I actually discovered that it wasn't the power converter when I brought LibraryAnn back to the house to clean up the hamburger mess and try to remove the smell. All worked well for about 2 hours, then the 12v power failed again. I rushed again to get her back to them before work the next day only to have them discover 3. that I'd failed to latch the frig door after cleaning and two glass bottles rolled out and broke on the trailer floor. And they didn't charge me extra to work around the broken glass or rotten hamburger. They also simplified the fuse system and showed me where they all hide. Kudos to Americamp. And I got to take my next trip on time.

Did I say "learning curve"??