Well, we're still here and doing fine. Excitement over the past couple of weeks was an electrical short last Friday that burned out our Progressive Energy Management System (EMS) leaving us without 120 volt power (including the generator) for a little over half a day and some strong storms this past Tuesday. Oh, and we did the tax thing this week, too.
Concerning the electrical short, we have a 50-amp trailer which is a fancy way of saying we have two lines (or legs) of 120 volts sharing the power cord - each providing up to 6,000 watts of power to the trailer. When the trailer is plugged into a properly wired, 50-amp campground power pedestal, you usually get to run all the appliances that you want at the same time. According to the RV tech, one of the connections where our power cord actually connects into the trailer came apart and sent 240 volts down one leg. The Progressive EMS sacrificed itself to protect all the electronics. And it did it's job, too - nothing else was damaged.
We now have a TRC Surge Guard in it's place that is somewhat "stronger" and is suppose to be able to handle such things without damaging itself. So far, so good. And the battery charger that we'd carried around with us since we retired finally came in handy. I kept it with us when I read where someone had lost the use of their RV's converter and bought a battery charger to keep the RV's batteries charged until the converter was replaced. We took the opportunity to play with our battery charger and found that we could set it on a stool & use it to charge the trailer's batteries until we could get the trailer's wiring repaired. Worked like a charm!
And the weather. It's been a warm winter here in the Gulf Shores area, and this is resulting in stronger storms this season than we've experienced over the past few years. The worst storms tend to go around us, but Tuesday's set us up for thunderstorms to "train" over the park area for the afternoon. Since we've learned to pick up & store all our loose items and stow rooftop antennas (depending on predicted winds and the weather watches that are posted), we normally don't lose anything. At most the trailer bounces as the wind gusts come through. We rode this one out just fine and appreciate all the texts and phone calls checking up on us. And, as of this afternoon, the water has just about drained from the park. I guess people will have to go back to the lakes to fish now!
Anyway, that's been our past two weeks. We hope everyone is enjoying their February. Thanks for dropping by and checking on us! David
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