Still No Work

For the second day in a row, I had every intention today of doing a little work on my rentals. For the second day in a row, that didn't happen. My excuse today was that I needed to fix the motorhome after discovering last night that all the DC electric was inoperative. This is an issue that first occurred on our last camping trip. After that trip, I discovered that a DC Buss Bar had gotten hot and melted the plastic insulating material where the supply was connected. As a temporary fix, I jumped the supply wire to another post. It had apparently worked fine every since.

After our last trip, I contacted the manufacturer, Holiday Rambler, to get a replacement part. Unfortunately, the part is no longer in production and they didn't have a good idea for an alternate part. Motorhomes are basically built individually as they are ordered and no two are exactly the same. I hadn't gotten around to searching for another supplier of a similar part.

At any rate, this was a self-inflicted problem. When I started working on the unit today, I discovered that the battery was completely dead. My initial thought was that the converter had died, but as it turned out, it was still unplugged from where I worked on the problem last time. So, I recharged the battery and while that was occurring, I decided to fix the Buss Bar problem. I disassembled the buss bar and found that each individual terminal was contained in a separate fuse unit. Therefore, I moved the fuse unit that was at the damaged spot on the Buss Bar to another spot and reassembled the unit. Everything worked fine.

Next on my agenda was to make a trip to the bank and post office. I then returned home and watched CNBC as the market was crashing yet again. What could be more dramatic than watching the country heading into the 21st century version of the great depression? While watching the market tank, I paid a few bills.

After the stock market closed, I went for my daily bike ride. That was it for today and I'm looking forward to watching the Presidential debate tonight.

Now that I've been lazy the last two days, I am absolutely committed to doing some work on the rentals tomorrow. You know what they say - the third time's a charm!