{"id":22056,"date":"2013-01-08T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16725"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T08:45:03","slug":"wow-and-an-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wow-and-an-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"WOW! (And an adventure)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, I set to work cleaning up the rig, but a broom was no match for The Great Confetti Disaster of 2013. Hmm… voltage was super high since full sun was hitting the solar panels and the battery was at 94% capacity.<\/p>\n

I turned on the whole house inverter. So far so good and I was drawing barely 0.1 amps more than when I’d just been running the fridge. I plugged my Magic Vac<\/a> into the dressing room outlet and gingerly switched it on.<\/p>\n

You know what happened?! NOTHING. My inverter didn’t explode and my rig didn’t implode. The vacuum ran for the two minutes I needed it to run and I lost 0.1% battery capacity. OMG, I can vacuum when I boondock! Wait, why am I happy about this?!<\/p>\n

That’s the good news. The bad news is that as soon as the sun started to set, I once again got a discrepancy between my inside readings and the batteries themselves. Not as bad as yesterday, but still annoying. I am going to try to find a lock nut of the correct size for my fuse and see if that helps.<\/p>\n

As for the adventure, I noticed Red Lobster was across the road from the rig. That’s a huge treat for me! I haven’t gone there since the fall of 2011<\/a> and the time before that was in 2007, so I didn’t feel that going there tonight was particularly excessive.<\/p>\n

But the area here isn’t pedestrian friendly, so I had to walk two blocks to the nearest traffic signal, then hike those two blocks again through bushes and a ditch to reach the restaurant! The trip back in the dark was particularly fun, but the exercise was good. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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