Sunday, May 08, 2005: 6AM - Mr. Levelers is working again! This morning, everybody on The Team got together and looked over Mr. Levelers' electrical schematic. And, we figured it out! There is a blown relay. But we are able to jump the relay, and get Mr. Levelers’ jacks to go up and down. We are soooooo happy! Wow! Tomorrow we will phone the factory, and order a new relay.
9AM - heading northeast up State Route 32. It is raining steadily, and looks to be rainy for the next few days. We on The Team, love the rain. We plan to go up SR32 for an hour or so, and make a Breakfast Camp.
Change In Plans! Mr. Levelers tried to stow his jacks, and the jacks would NOT come up! It seems as though sometimes the jacks work, and sometimes they don't. We got son Joe on the cell phone, and talked to him about the problem. Joe is an electrical engineer. We would like to replace the entire control unit for Mr. Levelers, but this is a BIG job. Joe cautioned that all of the leads have to be labeled, before we take apart the controls. Putting labels on the wires is very, very hard to do, because everything is crammed into a tiny place!
Jumble of wires in Mr. Levelers control box.
We decided NOT to travel anyplace, until we get Mr. Levelers repaired. So, we are staying in the Chico area because we are able to buy electrical parts here. Wow!
Mr. Levelers has good news!! We went shopping for switches and relays to repair Mr. Levelers. The first place that we went to, was to a nearby Radio Shack. The switches and relays that this Radio Shack had for sale, were the exact ones that we were looking for. In fact the manager of this Radio Shack commented that the PowerPlus factory must have purchased their electrical parts from Radio Shack! Wow! That was a lucky thing.
After the bad relay and switch were replaced with the new Radio Shack parts, Mr. Levelers was running like his old self again!
5PM - Nite Camped in Chico. We have picked a Nite Camp near a construction site. There is a nice big open green field in front of MsTioga. It is still raining, but The Team is warm and dry. This has been a very good day.
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To share the vagabonding life with our fellow RVers like yourself. We hope that you will try to boondock and dry camp.
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