The trouble with troubleshooting.....

 7:16 am - Monday - January 10th - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 42° F, 40% humidity, wind - CALM.....partly today with a forecast high of 72° F.  The view this morning is amazing.....↴

.....on this date in 1978 my father, Arthur Ray Hockwald, passed on to the next life at 54 years of age.....he will never be forgotten by me, or our siblings....he was a man's man....an unforgettable character......↴

Arthur Ray, circa 1966

.....I miss you dad....every single day....I hope you are proud of me.  Also, on this date in 1985 our beautiful daughter Sharon was born......Happy Birthday Bunny!.....↴

Sharon on her wedding day

Sunday was a continuation of Saturday's electrical troubleshooting efforts.  Right after I finished post my daily blog post I began by opening up several of the numerous wire chase access points in the coach so I could begin to trace the circuit from the breaker box....

....these panels are found around ceiling level on both sides of the coach, and are packed with hundreds of 12 volt wires, and a dozen Romex lines....one for each of our 12 AC circuits.  Four long screws hold each panel in place.....these are just two of the many panels, most of which are found inside closets, or cupboards, and they are two of the more easily accessible access points.  The first picture is of the bathroom access point (I neglected to take a picture when it was removed showing all the wires) where I began my efforts.  My intent was to (while the coach was powered up) to find the Romex line which serves the TV cabinet outlets....easier said than done!

Let me digress here for just a moment.  Two years ago I rewired the circuit which powers our Progressive Dynamics charger/converter to add an ON/OFF switch so I didn't have to manually pull the plug on the charger/converter to disconnect it when I power on the inverter (I wrote about that here).  At that time I discovered that some of the dozen circuits were miss labeled as to what was on each circuit.  The legend indicated the charger/converter was on circuit 12, but I found out it was actually circuit 9.  Some of them are correct, but I knew I needed to go through all 12 circuits to find out which were incorrect, and correct them. 

All of the preceding brings me to Sunday....since the Romex line which feeds the main outlet in the TV cabinet is on the right side of the coach (right front, upper corner) I figured I would start searching for it in the wire chase on the right side of the coach.  When testing each of the 4 Romex lines in the wire chase at the bathroom access point none of them was for circuit #4, which the legend indicates is the TV cabinet outlets circuit...wait, what?  In addition, one of the 4 Romex lines seemed to be for the 'Microwave' outlet, which is on the left side of the coach.....why would they run the circuit for the microwave circuit on the right side?  By the way we no longer have a microwave, and we now plug in our Breville toaster oven at that outlet.  

When half the circuits are labeled incorrectly you get a little frustrated, to say the least, not to mention the wasted time involved.  At that point it was getting on toward noon time, and I decided to stop what I was doing until I could go through all of the outlets, and create a new legend with accurate information......I think we'll do that Monday.

We'll be leaving our wonderful Anza Borrego Desert boondock site on Wednesday to roll our wheels and find new views and adventures....soon we will be back in Wittmann, AZ beginning some projects on the Newell, including running a new line to the TV cabinet outlet.  At any rate, I'll begin putting stuff away on Monday, including organizing the trailer for VW insertion Wednesday.

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