Ok, I guess it could have been worse, but I’m not sure how. Let me explain, for the new battery monitor, for the new inverter controller, as well as three new 12 volt feeds for the passenger side of the coach. So a total of five wires at the start with only three making it from the basement all the way to the control panel above the co-Pilot seat. Because they need to run through the cabinets each has to be pulled separately, a new access hole needed to be drilled between two of the cabinets and multiple holes were needed to go through the floor into the basement, then from the cabinet under the fridge to behind the fridge and then back into the coach at the end of the high mount cabinets on the right side of the coach. It involved many trips in and out, keeping all the wires from tangling, and moving smoothly, so this old fart is some tired. I also need to install one of the 12 volt outlets near the co-Pilot seat as I need a good power supply for the new inverter controller, then it’s reinstall all the panels that I had to take apart to run the wires, and tidy everything back up.

This will have all the controllers in the same area, as you can see from the photo they are just mounted on a piece of cardboard for now, just wanted a chance to make sure I was happy with the positioning before creating the actual mounting board. I plan on using grey smoked plexiglass for this, and while not real expensive will take a lot of work to cut and fit everything. The system is still not operational as I’m waiting for the 8 gauge wire that will connect the actual 120 volt power to the inverter, and supply the power back to the electrical breaker panel, but somehow USPS has somehow managed to send it Cave Creek Arizona from Phoenix instead of Ajo Arizona. But hopefully they will get it back on course so that I can get this task completed.

Woke this morning to temperatures in the thirties, and quite windy. Not a normal Arizona day…just before you laugh remember that your weather comes from the west, if we are getting cold everybody east of is in for some cold as well. Today seen the end of the battery install, I know it seems like it’s been going on for a month, but it’s only been a week. The cable to finish the inverter will be here later this week, although it is place, so the final switch over should only take an hour or so…this inverter will feed one leg of the breaker panel, so more circuits will be energized, so I reorganized some of the breakers to be on the energized side.

So we have manufactured a lot of connector cables this week, the hydraulic crimper that I purchased, back in the fall has paid for it self the last week, at $22.00 per cable and we needed 10 that length plus a number of longer cables, what the cables would have cost has more than paid for the supplies and the tools to make them…just saying

Tonight was tasty Tuesday in Ajo, so I got to escort three ladies to the event which featured shrimp or fish tacos, it was very tasty and the red sauce had some serious heat but left you wanting for a little more. This event is catered by a different chef each week, this week was put on by the same fellow that sell shrimp at the campgrounds in the area. He brings them up from Rocky Point in Mexico, the going rate is $20 for a kilogram, they are nice large shrimp.

Tomorrow’s task will be to run the wires (two LAN cables) to the control panels at the front of the coach, this is the very worse part of this task as the wires need to be fished up behind the refrigerator and through the cabinets, it will likely take all day and will involve much drilling and snaking the wires a few feet at a time, there could be a few explicit terms being thrown around, I just realized that we did not get the interface to reprogram the charging features on the new inverter so another Amazon delivery is on the way…yeah.