No Power!

We were without power last night! And it gets cold in the desert at night! It was 53 degrees in the living room when we got up this morning.

This is what the power cords looked like in the daylight. No wonder we saw such a bright flash when the power went off.

As soon as could this morning, Forry called Gene's RV and A/C Repair. They have a mobile service and the receptionist told him that a technician would call between ten and four and give us a half hour notice before he came out. It was almost four when he finally called, but he showed up about a half hour later. Forry's first idea which the tech concurred with, was to cut the male and female ends off of the fifty amp cable and replace them. So that's what they did.

 

 There are four color coded sets of copper wire in each cord.

 

The tech tried attaching the new ends to the cords, but he and Forry both quickly decided the ends he had were too flimsy compared to the original ones. In fact, he could not get them to stay clamped on -- all it took was one tug to pull them loose.

As a temporary fix, the tech spliced the two cords together. Since he's going to order new cords, it'll be sometime next week before we have a permanent fix. I'm not sure what the tech did while he was checking things out, but we do not have power to the outlets on the driver's side of the vehicle... But at least we have heat tonight.