5-28 Having spent the last week repairing the RV for our summer journey washing, waxing, installing a new tv system and packing, it was a bit unsettling when we plugged it back in a few days ago to charge it up, we had a crazy message on panel! “Brown Out”! What does that mean? The fridge was not on! We had turned the chassis and house battery connections off while it was sitting but it appeared the house batteries were dead. We started the generator and the batteries charged up and the fridge came on, so we thought we were good!
Daily as we brought more things to the RV and began loading the freezer, it was fine on shore power. Well, of course today when we got there the fridge was not on. Nothing was thawed and it appeared to have just gone off shortly before we arrived. The house batteries showed dead again. Once we ran the generator for a bit they charged up and the fridge came on. We completed our unloading and put away what we could and drove out to the road and shut off the generator and the RV while we hooked up our truck for towing.
Once back inside the fridge again was not on so we drove our 2 hours to the campground running the generator! We also quickly discovered that our “newly repaired” dash air was not working AGAIN! So to get any AC we had to have the generator on and ran the roof AC. Bill had called the campground while we drove and asked if they had a mobile company they used. He called and set up for the tech to come out tomorrow afternoon as were planning to go to Steinhatchee for lunch.
The drive was fine with a few scattered showers along the way. Timing was perfect as Larry and Clarissa had only been there about 10 minutes and Jean and Paul were shortly after us! The weather for the remainder of the day was excellent!
It was very exciting when Bill plugged in the 50amp power and the fridge stayed on when I turned off the generator. We still need to have it checked out as it could fail again at our next stop.
Our sites are side by side facing an inlet and we have our own shelter with some chairs and a table to sit out on and watch the alligator cruise around and mullets flying. The perfect spot for visiting and group meals!
View from our RV front windowWe headed out to Bill’s Bar-B-Q for dinner and everyone had a great meal. They had social distancing in effect and had closed down the salad buffet. Since it was still day light after dinner we sat out again and talked until the mosquitoes got hungry!
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