Blue skies, no wind and 70F today.
At this campsite the community breakfast is on a Saturday, and it runs to 9AM, so we could go without getting up early!!!
Yesterday some cable arrived that I had ordered from eBay, so I spent part of the day installing it. The rear view camera that I installed before we moved to Alabama worked fine when we were stationary, but was useless once we got moving. I suspect the problem was the distance from the rear of the trailer to the front of the truck (50ft) was too far for the wireless signal.
The new plan is to put the transmitter in the wardrobe at the very front of the trailer and connect the camera to it via a length of cable. Unfortunately it is not possible to run the cable inside the trailer for the whole length, and conventional wisdom prohibits drilling holes through outside walls, evidently they are guaranteed to leak however well you seal them. I finally managed to route the cable the length of the trailer with only one hole drilled, and that hole was inside a weatherproof compartment into the wardrobe. Next job is to connect it all up.
This evening our old enemy the gas problem returned. After changing the switchover from one tank to another we nearly all gas pressure, even though both tanks had plenty in them. Of course this happened in the middle of BBQing dinner! Luckily dinner was cooked enough to eat 🙂
After dinner I went back outside and after much swapping of tanks and playing with hoses, I got one tank working. Once I got back in I did some research on the web and found that this is not an uncommon problem. It all stems from the multitude of safety devices built into tanks, pipes and regulators. One of these devices will prevent a cut hose or uncoupled hose from leaking gas at high pressure. If the system detects a high rate of gas flow it will switch to a low flow / no flow mode which may provide just enough pressure to run a gas burner at half power or not at all. The system, it appears, will also go into this mode if the tank valves are opened too quickly. Sometimes safety is a bit too smart!!