Pop, Sizzle, Smoke Or We Have A New Verter

A few weeks ago the power randomly went out, but only for part of the lights and outlets. Apparently different things get their power from different sources (I assumed it all came from the big electric plug outside).

Fortunately, Chris is rather handy at these things and he got it fixed.

Or so we thought. It worked for a couple days and then the same thing happened again. We followed this pattern for a couple weeks until we got here to Statesville.

Chris did some internet research and consulted with the repair department at Camping World and determined we needed a new inverter (maybe it was a converter. It was a "verter" of some sort).

He also decided he could install it himself, so off to Camping World to buy the Verter.

Once he got it installed he touched it and said "It's warming up already. That's a good sign."

With the new Verter in place, Chris started the MH engine.

That's when it happened....Pop, Sizzle and Smoke (not a lot of smoke, but when you're inside a 400 square foot fire trap, any smoke is scary).

He said "That sounded bad."

I stood by the door, near the fire extinguisher and rapid escape.

He looked at the Verter, checked the instructions. He had a couple of wires switched around (turns out "It's warming up already" was a bad sign too).

A couple new fuses (to replace those charred in the first attempt) and a few minutes spent changing the wires and we are now happily powered and the owners of a new Verter.