So last night was the first "camping" trip. We headed out to Sequim Bay State Park and got really lucky, space 81 facing the bay. Best site in the whole camp group. Got some firewood, enjoyed some tennis, than settled in for a fire and dinner. Put down the bed topper on the bottom and PH bed, what a difference it makes. New pillows to boot, thank you Costco!! Everything was going really well until about 1am when the damn propane detector began going off. Well I thought maybe it's the old batteries giving in. A sign they need to be replaced. The only draw was the frig and furnace. So I started up the van to see if it would resolve that problem. Nope - kept going off. No smell of gas what so ever. So I did a little reading, come to find out these units have a shelf life of about 5-9 years....
and this one is 98. Well I turned off the van, stuffed a pillow down there and went back to sleep. Funny thing the darn thing stopped about three am....
Slept until about 8am. Than started to think about making coffee, no problem I'll just turn on the inverter, make a pot and turn it off. That didn't work. Add to the list of things to fix once we get back home. Boiled water and manually poured it in the coffee maker. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Made oatmeal. Went for a walk to the water and than head back home.
Did some digging and found out the inverter was just not turned on....turned it on and tested it out in the drive way. Wife and I agreed, easier to enjoy perked coffee from the stove top. Ready for another trip tomorrow with dinner plans with Teddy.
At this point I have a dead carbon sensor and possibly either a dead propane sensor or two soon to be dead batteries. Put those on the list. Diag this week for another camping trip next weekend.