Repairs

A Day of Repair
We were going to go to Philly today but stopped first at the campground office and I looked up a place to have the generator fixed. It turned out that Camping World was located about 40 miles away and they had a certified Onan tech, but he was only working today (Friday ) and then off on the weekend. They could work me in at 3:00 for him so I took the slot and after that we decided not to go into the city as it would not leave us a great deal of time to go in come back and then go to the repair facility.
We got to CW an hour early but he said that he could take us then (so much the better). It turned out that the generator was not getting any power from the battery to start it. Just what I had suspected and why I had cleaned all of the terminals and ground wire connections. The problem and solution were to replace the hot wire and ground wire to the generator and now it just seems to purr away.
My fault for not bringing my voltmeter with me on the trip or I could have diagnosed the problem myself. Ah well the next Radio Shack or Home Depot and I will buy another one. I guess it’s always good to have an extra.
The good news is that now we have power for Bev’s hair dryer and the microwave. That means that we are now fully self contained again and if we do not find a campground open (and that my dear friends is becoming more and more of a problem at this date) we can just park where our engine is turned off. All of the campgrounds here in the northeast seem to close between 9/30 and 10/30 and most it seems are closed by 10/15. Winter comes and the campers all go home and prepare for snow and Santa.
1 Carpenters Hall or Home
2 George Washington
3 Father of the US Navy plus Independence Hall in backround
4 Second Bank of the United States
5 The American Philosophical Society