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Title: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: George Stoltz on September 06, 2010, 11:27:26 am
Our power monitor reads excessively high.  It has been this way for a long time.  I not only do not know how to fix it and do not have a solder sucker or the skills to solder -- so the idea of me fixing this is not a possibility.

From January through March, we will be parked in the same Florida camp ground and I am wondering if I can pay someone to repair ours for us?  I can remove it and ship anywhere.  We can live without it for a while because we have an EMS with a readout of amp usage.
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Dave Head on September 06, 2010, 02:31:26 pm
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On 9/6/2010 11:27 AM, George Stoltz wrote: 
Our power monitor reads excessively high. It has been this way for a long time. I not only do not know how to fix it and do not have a solder sucker or the skills to solder -- so the idea of me fixing this is not a possibility.

From January through March, we will be parked in the same Florida camp
 ground and I am wondering if I can pay someone to repair ours for us? I can remove it and ship anywhere. We can live without it for a while because we have an EMS with a readout of amp usage.
 
Where in FL?
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: George Stoltz on September 06, 2010, 02:38:40 pm
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Where in FL?
Dave,
 
We will be at Salt Spring Recreation Area (COE park) near Ocala from early January to the end of March, 2011.
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Dave Head on September 06, 2010, 08:20:17 pm
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On 9/6/2010 2:38 PM, George Stoltz wrote: 
Dave,
 
We will be at Salt Spring Recreation Area (COE park) near Ocala from early January to the end of March, 2011.
 
George & Sandy Stoltz with Trixie, the PBGV. Traveling this great country in "Moose" our 2000 U320 4010 with artwork by Xtreme Graphics and pulling a CR-V with plain factory paint. Build #5740.
 
See our blog and read about what we are up to at:
http://sangeo-travels.blogspot.com/ (http://sangeo-travels.blogspot.com/)
 
I'm pretty certain I read from Dick Mason's notes that the digital readout is adjustable via potentiometers right on the board. If so, I could swing up there and have a go at it. And If those neon bulbs need replacement I'm relatively handy with a soldering iron. I live in Oviedo which is only about an hour and a half away. I actually have hospital accounts I service up there in Ocala.
 
Tomorrow I have to drive to Lake City to install an interface, and Wednesday I have to drive to Ocala to do some interface testing.
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: George Stoltz on September 06, 2010, 10:09:02 pm
Dave,
 
It would be great to meet you.  I'll make a note in my January calendar to send you an e-mail and if you can swing by, it would be great.

Thanks for your input.
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Mike Baldacchino on September 07, 2010, 05:46:28 pm
George,
I'll be in Eustis, FL for the winter.  If Dave can't get to it, it is less than a half hour for me to get up there and take a look at it.  I pass there going north and south, but you won't be there then.
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Gary Bouland (RIP) on September 09, 2010, 02:53:33 pm
George,  When you say you will be at Salt Spring from Jan to MAR, are you work camping there ? Or can you arrange to stay that long at a federal CG ?
We will be in Davenport , FL at about the same time but will be looking for alternate places to stay in the future for a week at a time .
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: George Stoltz on September 09, 2010, 03:05:37 pm
Gary,
 
We are there in what they consider their "off season."  They have a few sites for which they will allow extended camping.  We got one of those.  Happy.  Happy.  Happy.
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Mike Baldacchino on September 09, 2010, 03:54:49 pm
I stay at southern palms rv in eustis.  Decent place.  For me it is close to where I race during the winter (1/2 mile).
As with most FL camp grounds, you are there because it is warm. ;D
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Tom Lang on September 09, 2010, 07:33:59 pm
For some piece of mind until you get it fixed, pick up a Kill-A-Watt meter and plug it into some easy to see receptacle.  They cost $15-20 and show you the voltage of one leg.  I've also used mine to show me how many watts (or Amps) my plug-in appliances are using and the frequency of the 60Hz power line.
Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Fiddler on September 09, 2010, 10:00:27 pm
Once the Power Line monitor circuit board is removed for repair, is it safe to reconnect the coach to shore power?    BTW I also have the Progressive EMS hard wired in.

Title: Re: Power Monitor Needs To Be repaired
Post by: Barry Beam on September 10, 2010, 12:40:44 am
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Once the Power Line monitor circuit board is removed for repair, is it safe to reconnect the coach to shore power?
Mine is just plugged in to two electrical outlets.
Just unplug it and you should have no problem using shorepower.
Just think of it as a plug in tester.
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