Hello All. We finally got a very late start at 5:30 PM Friday on our way to a local KOA. While doing the last minute walk around I discovered that I had mixed a ground plug with the brake lamp plug on this multiplexed light system and blew a fuse. Since the tail lamps worked as well as the directionals and since it would still be light by the time we arrived t the KOA, I decided to pretend the tail lamps were dim stop lamps which I could manually operate while braking--seemed to work OK and only took a short time to identify the blown fuse (one of about 50 in the system) once I got home.
When we arrived at the camp ground we found our reservations had been modified and that we would not be side by side with our traveling companions as we had planned. Bummer. That disappointment was soon forgotten when I learned that the power pole for our site could not be used. I always test the electrical service at a campground with a circuit tester before turning on my on board circuit breakers. Boy am I glad I did. The camp ground power pole had been wired with the hot and ground reversed--no wonder the receptacle was all charred looking and the plug wouldn't stay in place. After an hour's wait, The camp handy man appeared and agreed the wiring was wrong but that nothing could be done about it until Monday morning-------. Since the point of this camp out was to test out the tent trailer, not having power just wasn't in the plan. After making it quite clear that I'd be running both noisy generators all night unless a way was found to get us power, the guy agreed to allow us to poach on a neighbors service with the neighbor using the 50 amp service and us using the 30 amp service. It took both of my power cords to service one or the other of my campers and since it was still about 100 degrees out I lit up the bus as I knew it worked.
The next morning I switched the power to the tent trailer so I could see how the shore power and genny power played together. The shore power ran A/C, microwave and fridge just fine, but as expected, the little genny wouldn't run both the microwave and the A/C at the same time though either the microwave or the A/C could be run with the fridge. We decided to sleep in the tent trailer Saturday night despite the lack of power and it turned out to be quite comfortable. We'll have to leave the cooking and washing for another test run somewhere else.
There are only a few pics to share and none of them shows the A/C unit or how it is set into the tent so that will have to wait until next time. Despite the set backs we did have an enjoyable time out camping with friends so nothing was really lost. Jack
A pic of the platform installed on the tongue of the motorcycle tent trailer.
Arrival at the campground.
This is how the genny and fridge are arranged. The light duty extension cord is for the microwave and plugs into a receptacle on the trailer body. I'll have a vinyl cover made to protect the fridge and genny while in transit.
A view of the tent trailer from under the awning on Honeysuckle Rose. ![Image](http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w435/oltrunt/IMG_20150829_100847_zpsjb1yidt4.jpg)