Wednesday, November 14, 2012

On line...

There are some things you just can't get in a small town.  OK, there are a lot of things you can't get in a small town... but, the internet makes all shopping possible.  :-)  With the temperature and humidity in the music room pretty stable, the guitars are just as happy out as they'd be in their cases.  And, it's a lot easier to take my pick and pull it down...



It's a small room; getting the guitars up on the wall makes it roomier, too.  Those guitar wall mounts arrived by UPS.

A little later this afternoon, FedEx showed up: a Smart Plug connector and a solar exhaust fan for Wild Blue.  I need to get a hole-saw to install the fan, but I went to work on the Smart Plug connector...


While in Friday Harbor, an electrical arc left a burn on our 30 amp electrical cable and where it connects at the boat.  We replaced that with a Smart Plug - it's a better connector... but, it meant we had to put out our heavy cable even if we were just plugging into a 15 amp circuit like we have at home (and in some campgrounds).  It just seemed more efficient to put a Smart Plug connector on a heavy 15 amp cable - less cable sitting in the cockpit, less temptation for someone on a "copper hunt."

Pretty straightforward with the wiring, but I had to push a heavy cable through that snug black opening (thus the dish soap above).  Then, the wiring...


The toughest part was pushing a short bit of cable back through that skinny opening after the wiring.  All put together and out to the boat to give it a try... it works.  No light on the reverse polarity - all is good.

The wind finally started easing up a bit today.  A decent, but overcast, day in the 70s.  Right now, it almost feels calm out, with the wind only blowing about 15. ;-)


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