We had the weekend at Majors Creek recently for the Music at the Creek Festival. It was so relaxing to be surrounded by music for 2 whole days. And while there were people getting drunk, I did not hear a single angry word in the whole time that we were there. Lesson learned on this trip: Park the bus where the front windscreen is in the shade & the solar panels are in the sun, not the other way around.
I have had problems with 240V the inverter bringing up an alarm condition, which was eventually traced to a voltage drop when the 12V fridge kicked in. I found an excellent article here on fault-finding for the fridge & then decided to check the batteries. Apart from corrosion on one of the terminals, I was horrified to find that all of the cells in all 4 of the batteries were dry! It took 8 litres of distilled water to top them up. I now have it on mains power to bring them up to fully charged in preparation for a week on the road.
And the bilge blower mentioned in the previous post has been installed & it does a fantastic job of pushing the hot air out of the locker bin. My very grateful thanks to Frank for cutting the exhaust hole in the steel plate floor & helping me to bolt it in.
Meanwhile I got a quote for an eCoShot LPG addition to the diesel engine from Ace Gas in Queanbeyan, with the work to be done when we get back from Melbourne.
