{"id":22048,"date":"2013-01-06T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16701"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T08:31:58","slug":"i-am-missing-a-piece-of-the-electrical-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/i-am-missing-a-piece-of-the-electrical-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Missing a Piece of the Electrical Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My electrical system is working perfectly, only it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>I started the evening with a fully charged battery. I ran the furnace a little, an LED light for a couple of hours, and the fridge. Three hours later, the battery monitor says that I drew 6.5 amp hours from my battery bank, which makes sense and still leaves me about 145 amp hours.<\/p>\n<p>I turned on the inverter and the monitor said that it was drawing 4 amps when the inverter shrieked out a low voltage warning and shut itself off.<\/p>\n<p>Amps-wise, I&#8217;m fine, but I seem to be having a voltage shortage that mystifies me. My entire system has smaller gauge wiring than specs call for and I have short cable runs.<\/p>\n<p>I am baffled. Even the 300 watt inverter refuses to work tonight, and by work, I mean charge my laptop. If I can&#8217;t charge my laptop, then all of my upgrades were made for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so disappointed. But at least I&#8217;m warm, so I guess that&#8217;s something. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My electrical system is working perfectly, only it&#8217;s not. I started the evening with a fully charged battery. I ran the furnace a little, an LED light for a couple of hours, and the fridge. Three hours later, the battery monitor says that I drew 6.5 amp hours from my battery bank, which makes sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1546,635,614,5,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henderson","category-north-america","category-north-carolina","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}