The Ford dealer had what they call a "Quick Line" which was an area in their service center that handled minor situations such as oil changes, tire and wheel issues and anything that doesn't require an appointment for service. They performed the fix on the mud flap and I also got the oil changed on the truck which was also due. It was nice to get those things out of the way.
When we pulled in late on Wednesday night, we just grabbed a site (#46) that had a 50 amp connection. It turned out that the site we chose had trees that would block any satellite reception so we asked Joel if he could place the rig on a different, 50 amp site, that had a clear view of the southern sky for our satellite when the work was completed. He placed our fifth wheel on a different site (#28) with a 50 amp hookup and a clear view to the south. When we arrived back from the truck service, we connected up to the electric and smelled something burning, like an electrical short somewhere. There was a technician here at the time changing out our front door lock which we had added as a "to do" item on our service list. He also could smell the electric problem. About this time, the light over the kitchen counter dimmed, and then went out completely, followed by all the power to the rig.
The technician checked out the circuit at the box outside and discovered that the box was faulty and only was putting out about 60 volts of current. No problem. We once again moved to a different site (#10) and set up again. This time, we had current at the box outside but our GFI switch inside the rig will not reset so we are now without power on one side of the kitchen which includes the microwave and all the outlets in the kitchen area. They will send another technician down to our fifth wheel this morning to try and find the problem. I hope that we didn't get a surge from the box at the old site that "fried" our microwave circuit - hence the smell.
The site we are currently in does have a clear view for our satellite and it looks like this:
The campground, as mentioned previously, is attached to the Camping World facility here and this shot shows how close we are to the retail center:
It's actually a pretty good setup. We are just hoping to get the electric fixed as we need the use of the microwave for the Christmas dinner that Josie has planned for tomorrow.
We are ready to see some local attractions in Chattanooga and the service manager at the Ford dealership provided us with several coupons to some of these neat sounding places. We will spend some time checking out the area and hope to have some fun things to report very soon. Until then...
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