We are in our place out in the desert where we will be until a week from Monday. It was a bit cool last night, down in the mid 40's this morning but the sun came up bright and warmed things up quickly.
We had planned a trip for the day to Lake Havasu City to see the London Bridge. When I attempted to put the lift out, it was dead. Nothing worked. We checked everything we could think of, finally took the cover off of the power unit and checked the voltage and there was 12 volts at the solenoid. I had seen a red led light on the control board when the unit was operating properly, but no red light this time. I was checking for power when a couple of our neighbors came by and offered to help. I told them what I had done and one guy said, let me get another guy, he is an electrical engineer. So he did some checking and we found a fuse on the circuit board, but it was good. We kept checking and finally found an in line fuse that was bad. I did not have a 5A fuse so we replaced it with a 15A and the red light came on and all worked as it should. The only thing I can think of is that when the lift was stowed under the floor and we closed the
door, the vibration cause the fuse to open up. A 5A filament is very small and it would not take much of a jar to break it. The 15A fuse has a much heavier filament and it should not be subject to that type of problem.
We finally got on the road about noon, stopped in Quartzsite at the Post Office and then an RV shop to get some more 7 conductor wire for the van brakes and then on toward Lake Havasu City.
The first photo was taken from the London Bridge looking north up the Colorado River. The second photo is of the Parker Dam generating plant showing the water rushing out from the turbines. The dam runs from California to Arizona at a very narrow part of the river. The mountains on both side appear to be granite and the walls are quite steep. All along the Colorado River there are homes, condos and rv campgrounds where ever there is enough room to build on. Most are quite beautiful with great views of the river and mountains.