One of those age-old questions of seasoned RVers–not necessarily old ones–is what kinds of plates and other dishes to travel with. I can’t count how many times someone has asked how I pack glass dishes, and I’ve always had a simple answer: I don’t. They just sit in the cabinet where they always do, with…
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Power Adapters 101: What power adapter is safe to use?
Just about every RVer has a few power adapters, often referred to as “dogbones,” to make sure that they can connect to whatever power is available to them–this post will go over which power adapter types are safe to use, and which ones you might want to carry. Circuit Protection The job of a circuit…
Using Water Misters to Save Electricity and Keep Cool
It’s that time of year again–temperatures are rising and the non-fulltimers are out in force. Depending on where you’re camping, that may mean managing your power use on a limited hook-up, listening to the air conditioner run non-stop, and possibly still being hot inside in the afternoon sun. We can improve on that with a…
Electrical Myths, Part 2: Showing Heater Current doesn’t go up when Supply Voltage Drops
Last time, we talked rather abstractly about why a space heater doesn’t draw more power when supply voltage drops. This time, we’re going to talk about it with a real space heater, current and voltage measurements, and a short, poorly produced video (I made it, so I can say so). More pictures and fewer formulas…
Electrical Myths, Part 1: My Space Heater’s Plug Gets Hot
Since it’s still winter time, let’s start with one dealing with using a space heater: My RV’s wiring isn’t big enough to handle a space heater. If I plug one in, the heater’s plug gets hot. I should blame the campground, then open the box and hose it down to cool it off. Ok, that…
Electrical Truths and Old Wives’ Tales Explained
As I approach 11 years of RVing, I’ve heard lots of things said about what you should or shouldn’t do, or explanations of a particular problem that have been passed along and accepted as truth. The problem is many of them aren’t much more than Old Wives’ Tales, or are so far removed from the…
Cleaning 240,000 miles and 13 years of dirt off the ceiling
It didn’t look that dirty for the most part when I got it, but I knew it wasn’t the cleanest. The ceiling just had a slight grey hue, and if you took something down (like I did with the kitchen remodel), you could see a definite difference in color. Some of that was yellowing, which…
Putting things back together
Since there was so much stuff out of the way, it seemed like a good time to get rid of some nasty looking wallpaper in the bedroom. Every attempt at cleaning got a little dirt off, but it just never looked clean. A few coats of primer and paint can’t hurt. Here’s what it looked…
Getting things dried out…
So I left off last time with a little bit of carpet pulled up, and an idea of what I was dealing with. I needed to remove the side wall of the bed platform, which was a quick task of just removing a few screws. After (mostly) finishing draining the tank next to all of…
Drip, Drip, Drip…
You never want to hear the water pump cycle on when no one is using water. There’s only one thing it could be…a leak. Now we aren’t talking about something every few minutes, or even every few hours. It was more like once every few days, but I knew I had a leak.