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After coffee this morning, I headed over to Barbara’s 2001 National Seaview to take a look at her taillight problem.

But first I want to check out her new residential refrigerator. A Haier, it’s the only one she could find that would fit in her 60” x 24” x 24” opening. Although the reviews for it weren’t terribly great, several blog readers like theirs, so hopefully it will work out for Barbara.

It certainly looks nice,

and certainly has a lot more room than her old Dometic.

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Getting on the taillights, Barbara had told me that the rear driver’s side lights were dead. But when I checked, I found that the taillight worked, but the turn signal didn’t.

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Of course, the first thing I checked for was a bad bulb, but it was OK. I even swapped bulbs with the taillight with no change.

So next I removed the turn signal housing to check the plug behind it. And when I tested it with my digital VOM, it sure looked like I getting some on-off voltage there, but only a couple of volts. Unfortunately this is one test that an old analog meter is better for, but my old one died awhile back.

So now I was pretty sure that the wiring was good going back to the light so I went inside to check things out there. One thing I had noticed was that the flasher speed was the same for both right and left sides, since normally the side with a bad bulb or other problem blinks faster than normal. So obviously something else was going on here.

And when I got the cover off the fuse panel in the driver’s seat left armrest, I got the idea that I might be on the right track.

Popping off the cover I found this.

And, yes, the wires and the switch were hanging out in the open like that.

Somewhere along the way, a guy installed some front and rear running lights for Barbara, and this is how he hooked them up.

Some people should not be allowed near anything electrical, or pretty much anything else, really.

Since the fuse block wasn’t marked, and there was no diagram on the inside of the cover – like there should be, I started going through all Barbara’s manuals looking for one. And completely struck out.

There was a photo of it, but nothing that told me what fuse was what.

So that was pretty much where I stopped for the day. When I got back to the rig, I posted on RV.net to see if anyone had a diagram of the fuse panel, but nothing so far.

So if anyone out there has one, let me know.

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Thought for the Day:

The Fifth Time’s The Charm!

After three previous failures, and one almost-landing – a landing gear leg broke, SpaceX did what some people said was impossible.

They launched over 3 tons of supplies up to the International Space Station, and after the first stage separated, it returned to earth and landed safely on a wave-tossed barge in the middle of the ocean.

They made a safe touchdown on land previously, but this is the first time on the water. They’re practicing this, since with some launches and some orbits, they won’t have enough fuel to return to the launch site.

Check it out!

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Well, that didn’t last long. Apparently Verizon is tweaking (or maybe twerking?) the new XLTE installation here, since for the last two days, the signal on my phone has alternated between 1X and 3G, with not a 4G bar to be seen.

But the increased 3G speed that I’ve been getting on my aircard hasn’t dropped off, with the 2.5 Mbps still the norm, so that’s still working out OK

I mentioned yesterday about how much data I’ve used so far this month – a little over 45 GB, noticeably higher than our normal 25 GB or so. I attributed the increase to the 3 or 4 TV shows we had streamed, but this morning I suddenly realized the real reason for the increase.

I forgot that Jan recently got hooked on the HBO series Big Love. On the air from 2006 to 2011, it details the life of a fictional fundamentalist polygamist Mormon family, Starring Bill Paxton, the series revolves around Bill Henrickson, his three wives (Barb, first/legal wife; Nicki, second wife; and Margene, third wife) and their (combined) nine children.

Featuring stars such as Ellen Burstyn, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Kay Place, and Bruce Dern, it received critical acclaim during all its five seasons.

Anyway, about a week ago, Jan started watching the series, streaming it for free through Amazon Prime. She’s now up to Season Two, Episode 9 now, so that’s 21 episodes of HD video Jan has streamed in the last couple of weeks.

So that’s where my extra GB’s have come from.

I  also forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog that for dinner we drove into Columbus to get our Whataburger fix. And this time we both with something a little different. Jan tried a Chop House Burger with two patties, bacon, tomato, grilled onions, melted shredded cheese, and creamy steak sauce. while I sampled the A-1 Thick and Hardy Burger burger, with two patties, bacon, tomato, grilled onions, cheese, and of course A-1 Steak Sauce.

We both liked our choices, but agreed we really liked our normal Whataburger Jr’s better. We did get a Root Beer Shake to go to have later as dessert. All in all, a nice meal.

For dinner tonight, we had our leftover steak from Monday’s night Texas Roadhouse visit, which Jan sliced thin and put it some of the rolls we also brought home. Along with a baked potato, it made a really good meal.

I talked to Barbara Spade, the park ranger, this afternoon, She said they had got her new residential refrigerator installed and she really loves it. I’m going over to her rig tomorrow to take a look at her taillight problem. And then maybe a carwash/rig wash using my pressure washer may be in the cards.

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We’ll see.

“A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.”

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