Here’s ONE of the upsides of being surrounded by like minded people.
I was fussing that my solar panels don’t provide enough electricity to meet my high demands so I was driving for an hour every other day to keep my batteries charged.
Terry promptly jumped in and said he’d bring over his portable Honda generator to charge my batteries.
Which he did. We plugged my RV into his generator and all assumed all was well. You know about that word “assume”, don’t you? How it breaks down into three words?
Turns out the generator was producing plenty of electricity but my rig was rejecting it. Not good enough. Huh!
So Terry and Lee came over and spent a few hours trying to figure out why. Then a couple days later Mike joined them and they puzzled some more.
They took turns lying in the very narrow aisle of my RV analyzing what was happening.
The consensus is that my Electrical Management System (EMS) wants the generator to be grounded.
Now we are in the desert. The ground is all rock. We are not going to try to pound a four-foot stake into this ground just to keep my EMS happy.
So, I am using my engine to charge my batteries. We did find out I don’t actually have to drive anywhere to do that, though.
So while everyone else is running their generators, I run my engine. Hey, whatever works, right?
TTYL,
Linda
Oh dear, the joys and woes of living through delivery of a new anything….
Whatever works is right!
It is wonderful to be surrounded by such caring, helping people. You picked the best of the bunch. Enjoy.
such dear men! men in white hats in the desert. who knew?
so glad you don’t have to drive around to do it.
but the cost of the gas???? !!!! WOW! although here it’s 2.89 gallon.
oh but you use diesel i think i remember. still . . . you have to be warm!
and surely the cold won’t last much longer.