03-18-2015, 07:30 AM
Well, winter in Brownsville this was was almost a bust. It rained, rained, and rained and the wind blew a lot. The sun was hiding most of the time. but at least it was warmer than Butler, MO.
We had AquaHot problems while we were there. Thanks to Rudy for his advice. We ordered the 3 sensors, and my wife and I replaced them. It took us 2 days with lots of fishing around underneath for those tiny little 1/4" screws. For goodness sake if you have to do that make sure you have a magnetized nut driver. I told my wife that the both of us wouldn't make a pimple on an electrician's you know what. But we finally won...and everything seems to be working properly. The problem was that the high limit switch would kick off and I'd have to go reset it on the electric side. The limit switch was a 230 switch and it should have been a 190 degree limit switch, because the resettable high limit switch was a 220 sensor. The high limit on the diesel would not reset. They both looked pretty old so we replaced both of them and everything works fine.
On the way home there was a problem with the Inverter. I assumed it was batteries and when we got home I put probably 2 gallons of water in them. They were pretty low. Then I unhooked all the negatives leads on all the batteries, turned off the shore power for about 20 minutes and then turned everything back on and that reset the inverters.
The other exciting thing that happened while we were just about a mile from River Bend (on our way home) is that we met a truck who was flashing it lights rather urgently at us and when I looked back, I could see smoke. I don't know what happened, but the tow car was burning. The wiring on the battery was destroyed. The doors had locked so we couldn't get into it and had to break the back window for the fire department to get in to put out the fire. Some people from the RV park came along and helped unhook the coach so I could pull it up the road away from car because we were afraid it was going to catch the gas tank on fire. I had just filled it up. My wife's bicycle was on a carrier on the back of the car so we salvaged that too. Those guys helped put the bike and all the tow equipment, bike carrier, etc. in one of the bays under the coach. We're still waiting on word from the insurance company.
We had AquaHot problems while we were there. Thanks to Rudy for his advice. We ordered the 3 sensors, and my wife and I replaced them. It took us 2 days with lots of fishing around underneath for those tiny little 1/4" screws. For goodness sake if you have to do that make sure you have a magnetized nut driver. I told my wife that the both of us wouldn't make a pimple on an electrician's you know what. But we finally won...and everything seems to be working properly. The problem was that the high limit switch would kick off and I'd have to go reset it on the electric side. The limit switch was a 230 switch and it should have been a 190 degree limit switch, because the resettable high limit switch was a 220 sensor. The high limit on the diesel would not reset. They both looked pretty old so we replaced both of them and everything works fine.
On the way home there was a problem with the Inverter. I assumed it was batteries and when we got home I put probably 2 gallons of water in them. They were pretty low. Then I unhooked all the negatives leads on all the batteries, turned off the shore power for about 20 minutes and then turned everything back on and that reset the inverters.
The other exciting thing that happened while we were just about a mile from River Bend (on our way home) is that we met a truck who was flashing it lights rather urgently at us and when I looked back, I could see smoke. I don't know what happened, but the tow car was burning. The wiring on the battery was destroyed. The doors had locked so we couldn't get into it and had to break the back window for the fire department to get in to put out the fire. Some people from the RV park came along and helped unhook the coach so I could pull it up the road away from car because we were afraid it was going to catch the gas tank on fire. I had just filled it up. My wife's bicycle was on a carrier on the back of the car so we salvaged that too. Those guys helped put the bike and all the tow equipment, bike carrier, etc. in one of the bays under the coach. We're still waiting on word from the insurance company.