Frozen out.....

So, after a long hot day of fixing domestic appliances the time soon comes round to break open a couple cold ones. Lyns in the pool so I lay out some crisps, nuts, smokey cheese and the obligatory Budweiser. My plan; always need a plan, is to eat the nibbles, down one tinnie and use the empty tin as an ash tray. So far so good. I still enjoy the demon rollup with a beer but rest assured there is a plan to finally phase them out....AGAIN! 

Anyway, I open the second tin of golden nectar and without a second thought I pop the finished rollie into the full tin...bugger!  No comments required thank you.

We've been in Vernon almost a week and feel its time to begin the slow trek south so on Tuesday morning we will hitch up the trailer and drive to a town called Oliver which is still in Canada but almost on the US border.  We paid a visit to Walmart and stocked up on loads of frozen food and treats for the week ahead. Whilst squeezing the rations into the fridge I noticed the little green light on the control thingy was not shining.....uh oh, the fridge had died.

I spent the best part of the evening checking fuses, shutting down the whole system, anything as well as constantly pushing the on button.......nothing.

Bearing in mind its now 9pm on a Saturday, we call the RV Doctor. What a lovely bloke, he was away for the weekend but became very concerned with our crisis and talked me through several possibilities leading that might lead to a resolution.

Now, for the more technically minded of you I will explain how this fridge works, or doesn't in my case. Its all about heat. There is no compressor or pump but a heater which causes a sealed unit to circulate gas around drawing any heat from within the fridge to a small radiator on top of the trailer. The theory is in the absence of heat there will be cold. Sort of makes sense that the back up system works off a propane gas burner...weird.  Anyway, my system has two electrical power sources, one being 110 volts for the heater and 12 volts for the circuit board what controls everything.

We plug into the 110 volt mains and have a 12 volt converter supplying lights and the fridge etc.

It seems the converter was sending 12 volts to the fridge but it was not arriving to give life to the brain of the system. So I bought 25 metres of cable and laid a separate supply to the circuit board and low and behold the green light reappeared just in time to refreeze the grub.

In conclusion, it seems likely that a mouse or some other critter has chewed the 12 volt cable somewhere and broken it which makes sense as the TV cable plugs into the outside of the trailer at the same point as the back of the fridge, and the TV doesn't work either! The new cable is strapped to the chassis under the floor so unless Mr Mouse uses similar tactics as our Syrian refugee friends and has no fear of hanging underneath a moving vehicle, my fridge will forever remain cold.

Also, by hanging the TV cable out the window to connect to the supply, we get US cable TV.......yay, not. OK if you enjoy baseball and endless adverts...........