{"id":22041,"date":"2013-01-03T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16663"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T08:23:41","slug":"off-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/off-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, battery monitor working or not, it was time to get off the grid and make sure that my new electrical system works off of the new batteries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I started by shutting off the computer UPS, the electric heater, then I threw off the necessary breakers<\/a>. I am aware that breakers aren’t meant to be used like light switches and be turned on and off a lot, but I’m not going to be spending that much time going back and forth, so I’ll take my chances.<\/p>\n

Next, I turned off the water and switched the fridge to propane. I went outside, unplugged from the house, plugged the shore power cord into extension cord leading to the inverter, and then plugged that extension cord into the new inverter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moment of truth. I haven’t so far been able to so much as charge my iPad with the new inverter.<\/p>\n

The inverter switched on with nary a beep of protest. I then turned on the UPS for the computer system. All still good. I just wish I wasn’t blind and could use the battery monitor to determine my draw to know if I can still run the heater or not.<\/p>\n

As for my printer, turning off the converter turned off the printer’s outlet! So I am going to have to snake an extension cord around the room and get the printer plugged into the UPS, too, which is something I should have done eons ago anyhow.<\/p>\n

I located the fuses for the battery monitor, so I will change them next time I am out. If changing them does not help, I will get a professional to look at my set up and get it working 100%. I’ve done the heavy lifting, so I’m not convinced getting in a pro for and hour or two will kill my budget.<\/p>\n

What a difference new batteries make!<\/p>\n

I’m getting pretty excited about heading out on Sunday. I think I’ve located propane and I know where I’m spending the night. The best months of my RVing life lie ahead of me, I am sure of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, battery monitor working or not, it was time to get off the grid and make sure that my new electrical system works off of the new batteries. I started by shutting off the computer UPS, the electric heater, then I threw off the necessary breakers. I am aware that breakers aren’t meant to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,5,613,3,16,612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-rving","category-suffolk","category-travel","category-usa","category-virginia-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}