Originally posted by WWFan:
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Originally posted by Socal camper:
Hey Sean, I'm still waiting for you to call me back
Hey Phil:
Sorry for that...this wasn't the best of weekends- yesterday morning I got so fed up with being HOT and my SLC giving me problems that I went back home- and left my cell in the trailer.
I'm gonna try to 'splain in the least amount of words as I can what happened, but the first thing that seemed to trigger all the events I will detail was the idiot on my driver side of our spot that decided to park less than 12" from our coach. Coupled with the fact I had to lower the front of the coach all the way down left very little air room for the generator to breathe, and THEN- HIS exhaust (his coach was a 20yo POS-MH) was right against my coach, and the O2 sensor decided to beep it's fool head off the whole time, so yesterday morning after waking up HOT, I literally ripped it out of the wall. That was my breaking point. This was after the previous night where I had called the Fire Dept out twice to see if I could get them to use a portable O2 sensor to see if that darn thing was crying 'wolf', but they didn't have one (can you believe that? I could'nt!), and kept going back to the "dual exhaust" issue we had going- what I considered a "rush to judgement. I wanted them to tell me just how much noxious fumes were getting into my coach. They did get my neighbor to pull his coach up a little bit, but it didn't help. I even made a trip to Home Depot on Saturday to get some dryer flex line to vent my exhaust up to the top of the coach, but it didn't help either. I had people getting mad at me for being fervent with the fire guys (albeit....gentlemanly
, and I've been told they came back the next day (prolly wanted to see if there were any dead bodies they needed to pick up).
And of course, because of the heat the generator was putting out, over and above the ambient of 111*, the 30amp circuit breaker kept tripping on the genset, and THEN two of the POS inline fuses WW put on my rig after their glorious landing gear motor replacement, the ding-dang things MELTED TOGETHER! Lost all of my 12 volt.
I had no chance of keeping our rig
somewhat bearable in terms of temperature- none. I was DONE-stick a fork in me kinda DONE, so I boogied back home, dropped the thermostat down to 72*, took a nap, then watched the race. Went back down this morning to pick up the rig. I'm still reeling from the weekend, and will try to call you something this week. DW's still mad at me, so the intensity around here is heightened.
Murphy kicked my buttt this weekend...as far as Fontana goes for the Labor Day Race, you can count me out until they increase the RV spots to 20x40 (now only 15x40). That was another reason why I was calling the Fire Dept- I was hoping a logged call and them experiencing the closeness and toxicity of the 'experience' would help guide the track to consider it. You just can't put that many rigs together- all running gensets- together with the heat, and expect NOT to get sick. They did admit to me that they've had that problem, but couldn't split it between just heat-related incidents and heat/CO2 incidents.
Oh well...Phoenx is next...cooler weather in November, and 20 x 40 spots- where we have 8 of them for our 5 coaches- we'll be fine.
there I didnt want to leave our spot down at Huntington and wouldn't have gone if I wasnt sitting in the AC of the suite. I stayed in there untill the sun went down, then went up on the roof to watch the rest. I will be taking my rig to Phoenix as well. What day you heading out?
