We had a nice morning planned at the RV yesterday. We were going to replace the window in the door and Josie was going to start wiping down some areas inside. We arrived at the RV in the storage facility and discovered, once again, that the batteries were dead. I just bought these batteries in September of last year so they could not be bad (I don't think so anyway). The only thing I can think of is that there is something turned on inside the RV that is draining the power. At any rate, I immediately went to the guard station and asked if there was list of some kind for RV Mobile Repair Services. The guard was a tremendous help as he went down the list of services that he knew about and I began contacting each one to get some help. My first call was a clue that this is not the best time of the year to get RV mobile service. The guy said it would be one week from tomorrow before he could get out to help us. That would not work. I finally found a good, local service that happened to be in the area and he came out to our unit within a half hour of the call. What a break! This is the guy who made it to our RV:
He opened up the battery compartment, tightened all of the connections. found a loose wire and tested the batteries.
The test, of course, revealed that they were dead - or close to it - and that the solution was to try to locate a "drain" on the power and get them recharged. Josie found a light that was on in the bedroom and we went around and checked. as best we could, for any other potential problems.
That entire exercise took a good portion of the morning and early afternoon. We postponed the window swap - again. I took out the batteries and took them home to recharge - again. I did that overnight, so we will try to do our "planned" activities at the RV today. Once we bring the RV home to park out front for loading, we should be in good shape as we don't need the batteries as long as we can connect to power.
We are thankful that the weather is cooperating while we go through these unexpected delays...
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