Woke up and it was clear and cold outside, I have no idea how cold because the indoor and outdoor temperature units had a fight and wouldn’t talk to each other after midnight! I am guessing it dropped to around -2°C last night. At least my stomach was back to normal now.
After breakfast I set about getting the two temperature units to speak to each other, which they finally did.
Next up was there was no hot water. At this park the hydro is included in the cost so the hot water, fridge and some of the heating run off hydro rather than propane. If the wrong thing turns on at the wrong time then it may cause a breaker to trip (we only have a 30AMP service in the trailer). This was the problem. I suspect that the hot water tank switched itself on when the fire and coffee maker were on last night, and the load was too much. Resetting the breaker gave us hot water back.
Next problem; half way through drying my hair the main breaker popped. Again too many things running. Problem is with the fire and hot water on thermostats you are not really sure what is running at the time. The only casualty appears to be the alarm clocks as they need resetting every time. Off to the dollar store tomorrow to by some batteries for them. The computer and video stuff is fine as they all run off a backup battery system.
Next, the WiFi distribution device we have in the trailer was behaving very illogically. Most computing devices operate on binary system of 1’s and 0’s which simply put means it works or it doesn’t. This device seem to have introduced halves into it’s repertoire it either works, doesn’t work or partly works. Spent a lot of time working on that, but it seems to be the boss at the moment!
Last night a large motor home pulled in next to us. This morning we were looking at it while eating breakfast and we noticed a wind speed device mounted on the roof. First thought was that it was part of a weather station,but there was no wind direction device as part of it. Suddenly there was a large gust of wind, the cups of the device started to speed up AND at the same time the awning retracted. Sure enough this big shiny coach had an awning that automatically retracted when the wind got too high! A quick look on the web showed that the base price of that rig was $435,000.
After lunch we had reached the tropical temperature of 50°F so we donned our cold weather gear and set off for a trek around the campsite.
Tonight’s forecast is for sub-zero temperatures again, we didn’t sign up for this when we moved south!