January 20, 2023
On our way to Florida, we noticed the inverter wasn’t running. At a rest stop, Bruce pulled the battery tray out and checked the wiring. When he pushed the tray back into its compartment, the inverter started working.
Once we got to the RV park, our site was located under the live oak trees.
It is beautiful site and the shade is lovely. Being in the shade also caused us to realize that it was only the solar charging the batteries. The converter wasn’t charging the batteries.
There is a load on the batteries, so we could see the charge dropping.
Luckily, Bruce is extremely handy when it comes to electric wiring.
He spent hours crawling around in the basement ptracing the wiring to figure out were the problem was.
It was a relief to discover the converter was working correctly and the problem was downstream of the converter.
Bruce opened up a panel in the front storage to get to additional wiring.
He did a bit of testing with his voltmeter and then he asked me to help. I read off numbers as he checked different wires.
Bruce found the problem as I was helping him. There was a stud type circuit breaker that wasn’t working. After Bruce unscrewed it, he could hear it rattle. “It’s not supposed to rattle,” was his comment.
He ordered a new stud type circuit breaker from Amazon that afternoon. Once the breaker arrived, the put it in place.
Yay! The batteries started charging from the converter.
We’ve been watching our battery monitoring system and all continues to look good.
Retirement RV Dream 
Julia,
You married one handy guy!!! I wish I were that good. I’ve got some problems here that he could tackle if he has the time. I talked to Audrey earlier. She’s scheduled to come here Feb. 6, so I guess you all will have some visiting time.
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If you make a list of things you want Bruce to do, he will be happy to work on them while we are visiting. I am looking forward to seeing you and getting a chance to visit with Audrey. Will be seeing you soon.
Julia
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Glad Bruce was able to fix it. Good thing he is so handy. 🙂
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Yes, it was a relief that we didn’t have to get anyone else out to fix it. The part wasn’t very either. He did spend a lot of time figuring out how everything was wired.
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Larry is not all that handy. It would have been a big mess for us. 🙂
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Bruce is good with electric wiring, plumbing, and putting things together. He not that great of a woodworker, though.
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Those are all great skills to have. 🙂
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They certainly are! 🙂
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You are lucky that Bruce is handy with electrical problems. That could have been very expensive if you had had to hire an electrician to come out.
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Yes, it took a good bit of time for him to check everything out, so I imagine it would have been expensive.
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It pays to have a handyman around.
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It does! I am always so impressed how he can solve problems.
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I’m happy to have found your site. Our plan is to do a lot of RV traveling when we retire in a couple of years. Looking forward to reading more.
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Thanks for following! It has been great fun for us to travel and we are mostly having a blast. Stuff comes up with the RV a sometimes, but stuff came up when we had a house as well.
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