This afternoon, I set to work cleaning up the rig, but a broom was no match for The Great Confetti Disaster of 2013. Hmm… voltage was super high since full sun was hitting the solar panels and the battery was at 94% capacity.

I turned on the whole house inverter. So far so good and I was drawing barely 0.1 amps more than when I’d just been running the fridge. I plugged my Magic Vac into the dressing room outlet and gingerly switched it on.

You know what happened?! NOTHING. My inverter didn’t explode and my rig didn’t implode. The vacuum ran for the two minutes I needed it to run and I lost 0.1% battery capacity. OMG, I can vacuum when I boondock! Wait, why am I happy about this?!

That’s the good news. The bad news is that as soon as the sun started to set, I once again got a discrepancy between my inside readings and the batteries themselves. Not as bad as yesterday, but still annoying. I am going to try to find a lock nut of the correct size for my fuse and see if that helps.

As for the adventure, I noticed Red Lobster was across the road from the rig. That’s a huge treat for me! I haven’t gone there since the fall of 2011 and the time before that was in 2007, so I didn’t feel that going there tonight was particularly excessive.

But the area here isn’t pedestrian friendly, so I had to walk two blocks to the nearest traffic signal, then hike those two blocks again through bushes and a ditch to reach the restaurant! The trip back in the dark was particularly fun, but the exercise was good. 🙂