Solutions 'R' Us.....

7:48 am - Tuesday - January 11th - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 45° F, 41% humidity, wind 1 mph out of the north......clear, blue skies today (partly cloudy right now) with a forecast high of 73° F.   On this date in 2018 we awoke to snow at Desert View (Grand Canyon).......↴

Monday began with a beautiful sunrise, which, when I pulled back the bedroom curtains to see what was what, forced me to get out of bed, get dressed, and go outside to take some pictures of same.......

.....every morning I tell myself I'm not going to open the curtains too soon, because I don't want to have to get out of bed to take a picture at 6:45 am when it is as cold as it is going to be all day, but I am weak, and curious, so I go against my better judgement and open them....I'm glad I did Monday morning.....😊

We had decided Sunday that we needed to map out all of the circuits (12 in all) to find out what each 20 amp breaker powered.  Below is the 40 year old legend provided by Newell......

.....to say the least, it is vague, and cryptic, and a little inaccurate....for instance, the old legend shows the charger/converter on breaker #12, but it is actually on breaker #9.  Below is the new legend TLE and I created over the course of two hours......

.....it is not yet complete as we still have to verify that circuit #4 also powers the TV cabinet outlets, and the outlet in the through bay, but now we have a better, more accurate legend which shows everything that is powered by each circuit breaker.  As you can see we've added a lot more detail for each breaker.....a number of them power more than one thing such as #2, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 12.

So, where do we go from here?  How do we solve this problem, and restore power to the TV cabinet outlets, as well as the outlet in the through bay?  By the way, you will note that circuit #4 also powers the outlet next to my bed stand on the driver side of the coach, which still works even though the other two outlets assigned to #4 (see original legend-TV Cabinet, and through bay) do not.  We're not even sure they are powered by #4 at this point.  Anyway, what is our solution to restore power?

We can't really do anything about it out here in the desert as this project will involve opening up all the wire chases on both sides of the coach, as well as emptying out the TV cabinet to get at both of those outlets, and it may take more than a day, so we're going to wait until we arrive at the home of our friends, Tom and Darlene, where we will have a place to sleep while we tear the coach apart, and run new wire.

So, what is our solution?  Well, first we are going to remove the old Romex line feeding power to the TV cabinet, and then run a new, fresh Romex line from breaker #4 to the front and repower those two outlets.  As for the outlet in the through bay we will remove the rest of the wire from that outlet, and run a short length (about 3') of Romex from the outlet in the Norcold bay to power it, which will move it from breaker #4 to #3....we've used the outlet in the Norcold bay once, or twice over 14 years, so adding the through bay outlet will not put any strain on breaker #3 as the Norcold outlet is the only thing on breaker #3....weird, huh?

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