The heat is on.....

7:36 am - Tuesday - December 31st - TWW - 33° F, humidity 54%, wind 5 mph out of the southeast....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 55° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were enjoying some scoops of Rum Raisin Ice Cream in Cedar Key, FL.....

......the view this morning.....

The Suburban gas furnace which has vents going to the bathroom, and the entry of the Newell has had this squeak upon startup which lasts anywhere from a few seconds to few minutes ever since we purchased her back in March of 2008.  Since the squeak always went away (eventually) we lived with it, but now that we have the new electric motor it was time to pull it out of its cubbyhole and service it just like I did the kitchen one Sunday.  We also needed to go into town to retrieve the two packages from the PO Box which included the cabling needed to connect the solar tracker with the Bluetti AC200MAX in the shed, as well as another Suburban gas furnace Dinosaur control board, so I wanted to get tp servicing the heater early.

The aforementioned gas furnace is located under the Dometic refrigerator, and is actually easier to access than the kitchen one, so I anticipated being able to remove it from its cubbyhole in way less time than it took for the kitchen one, and I was right.  It took about 30 minutes, and I was walking out to the trailer with the heater in hand to change out the motor and sail switch.  As I write it has gotten so warm inside the Newell I had to turn off two of the three heaters....nice!

In all it took me around 2.5 hours beginning to end to refurbish the heater, and we were on our way into town to pickup our mail.  In all we were gone around 90 minutes, and I was now installing the 100' long cable between the solar tracker, and the shed.  I also had to connect the solar tracker with the Bluetti AC200P solar charger that provides the trailer with AC power.  The tracker requires 12 volt, so I connected some 12 gauge wire to the Bluetti, and connected it to the solar tracker.  Seems like an easy job, right?  Well it took me the better part of 2 hours to get all that done, and by that time TLE was reminding me we were going to BBQ a top sirloin on the Sea-B-Que for dinner.  By the time I finished it was closing in on 4 pm, so the sun was getting settling into the western horizon.  Once powered the tracker went from the neutral position to facing the sun pretty quickly, and I was able to verify that power was making its way to the shed Bluetti.  Tuesday will be the real test.

.....the top sirloin, which we bought at COSTCO a few weeks ago, was cooked to 123° F (medium rare), and TLE provided a side of mushroom risotto....a great meal.  A little Pino Noir was also consumed.  After dinner we headed out to the sunset firepit to enjoy another TWW sunset......

By this time the solar tracker has returned to the 'neutral' position

....we didn't head back inside until 6 pm where I watched the entirety of the NFL game between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers.  If you like lots of offense, this was your game.  I do like lots of offense, and this one had it in spades with a total of 74 points scored....the final score......40-34.

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