Monday, July 20, 2015

New Tires and getting Road Ready

We picked up the Long Hauler from Nolt's on Saturday and brought her back home for some further fixes and upgrades. Some of these involve the electrical system. I know, it's shocking isn't it? (moans from the peanut gallery).

 These are the CHEAP LED ceiling lights that actually are pretty nice! Got a 6 pack off of Amazon for about $30! Can't beat that!
 This is a replacement WFCO Power Center. It's an upgrade from the original 30 amp setup (it wouldn't even run the rooftop A/C unit so why was it even in the RV?) so we have 55 amps of potential power when plugged in. The fuses and breakers are also new and safer than the old ones. Below is a shot of the old ceiling lights, rotted, cracked, hot and not very efficient.
The 1977 RV has all incandescent lighting so I decided fro the price to just swap out ALL the interior lights which were falling apart anyway with these cheap LED units. Gotta say that they really work great, run cool and sap only a fraction of the power that the old lights did! I even replaced the dome light in the cab because even that had some honking big light bulb in it. I have to say that Amazon is becoming my go-to place to order stuff for the Tioga. There is stuff on there that's unbelievable and hard to find. The power center will replace the old, tired and half-working one. The charging and battery power option just isn't working anymore and I can't trust my family trip to "oh well, don't plan on using anything in the RV until we plug in somewhere." approach.

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