{"id":3173,"date":"2018-01-22T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2018-02-24T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T19:13:51","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2018\/01\/22\/on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the camera and GPS to see where we are today.<\/p>\n<p>While I was trying to get my knee better I was doing some planning and installs.\u00a0 I replaced all 6 batteries in the coach,\u00a0 4 house batteries and 2 chassis batteries.\u00a0 \u00a0 I also wired in a Shunt to allow metering of the power inbound and outbound from the house batteries.\u00a0 \u00a0I also installed a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2CEOj9i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bogart Trimetric Meter<\/a>\u00a0 above the thermostat on the hallway wall.<br \/>\nPulling the wires from the battery bay to that interior wall was very difficult and time consuming, but its done now.\u00a0 \u00a0 After all that was done, I ordered all new LED bulbs to replace the fluorescent tubes on the ceiling and above the sink. \u00a0 I had replaced all the fluorescent tubes not long after purchasing the coach due to darking ends, but they needed to be replaced again as they were quickly turning dark grey at the ends again.\u00a0 Researching that, it seems the ballasts need to be replaced.\u00a0 Fast forward to now, I didn&#8217;t want to waste more money on those tubes and bit the upgrade bullet.\u00a0 Changing them out was quite a bit more difficult than the videos implied.\u00a0 \u00a0Turns out my fixtures had the reflective shielding riveted in.\u00a0 As I wanted to keep the existing coach wiring coming thru the ceiling as long as possible I had to drill them out while the fixture dangled over my head.\u00a0 (had to drill them from the back side)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all done now.\u00a0 \u00a0Thank God!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are traveling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the camera and GPS to see where we are today. While I was trying to get my knee better I was doing some planning and installs.\u00a0 I replaced all 6 batteries in the coach,\u00a0 4 house batteries and 2 chassis batteries.\u00a0 \u00a0 I also wired in a Shunt to allow metering of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2018\/01\/22\/on-the-road-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Road Again!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modifications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}