Daily Archives: June 25, 2010
Canyon Lake…
Since we only had about a 2 hour drive today, we didn’t leave Burnet until a few minutes after 11 am.
Today was another day to travel with the generator on to run the house A/C’s. Otherwise it can end up in the high 80’s in the coach, and then take a long time to cool down once we’re at the park.
We pulled into the Lake Pointe RV Park in Canyon Lake, TX about 1 pm for what we thought would be a 10 day stay. However I was quickly informed that despite what I was told on the phone about two weeks ago, we could only stay for sure for 6 days and then would have to go on day to day thru the holiday weekend. Lake Pointe is actually a type of membership park, so if a lot of members show up for the 4th of July weekend, we may be out on the streets. We’ll see.
Last night I completed a field repair on a 12V power supply. It converts 120VAC to 12VDC thru a cigarette lighter plug. Normally I use it to power the wireless alert receiver for my Brake Buddy braking system in my truck when it’s being towed behind the RV. However I used it to test what turned out to be a malfunctioning tire pressure monitor, which killed the power supply. i assume I blew the internal fuse.
Never being one to be stopped by the “No User Serviceable Components Inside” warning on the case, and being too cheap to buy another one, I took my hacksaw to the case. A little sawing and prying and I was in.
And I was in luck. It had a fuse, and it was blown.
Not having a 2 Amp AGC pigtail fuse like the original, I decided to improvise with a 3 Amp ATO automobile fuse and solder it in directly. A small piece of wire and a hot soldering iron later, and I was back in business.
A quick test with my meter showed the problem was fixed, and strip of duck tape put the case back together.
And it worked fine on the trip today.
Lake Pointe is a nice park near Canyon Lake, heavily wooded with a lot of deer roaming free. And Jan has a 50# bag of deer corn all ready to go.
Lake Pointe is also a Passport America so at $12 a night it’s a good deal. We’ve stayed here twice before, and enjoyed it both times.
We’re here to visit a good friend of ours, Gina Ellis, for 10 days or so before heading east toward Alabama, and then on to Louisville, KY by the 20th of July for The Rally, the largest RV rally in the US. After that it’s on to Elkhart, IN around the 1st of August.
After we got settled in today, we drove over to Gina’s about 5 pm and then went to dinner at The Windmill Restaurant for their All-You-Can-Eat Fried Catfish dinner. Really, really good.
Tomorrow we’ll do some shopping, and then I’ll start working on some home projects for Gina
Quote of the day:
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
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