Sunday, January 15, 2012

Leak fixed and Ranger installed

Since we couldn't find a likely culprit causing our leak around the vent, we decided to cut out a lot of the caulk and Eternabond tape around the vent and completely reseal.  It looks good now, but a rain storm will be the real test.
We got the Ranger installed and it works great.  Our site at the Allatoona campground is pretty close to the WiFi antennas so the real evaluation will come when we are farther away and need to work with a weak signal.  The install went quite well.  We mounted the Boost antenna to the strut on the Batwing, ran the wire down and across the roof to the refrigerator vent.  We used small pieces of Eternabond to hold the wire in place.  We managed to run the wire down through the same hole that the solar wire goes through right down behind the refrigerator.  The hardest part of the deal was moving the refrigerator out of it's cubby.  But that accomplished two things, it gave us an easy way to run the Wifi wire to the adjacent cabinet where the Ranger(router) will live, and gave us a chance to clean behind and under the frig.  We had readily available power in the cabinet as it's where the plug for the washer/dryer is located.  Got it all hooked up and with just a little confusion got it up and running.  Hope it solves the biggest part of our challenges with internet connection.
We are still working hard to deal with our storage unit.  We moved, actually had moved, our very large, heavy desk to a consignment shop yesterday, so hope that will sell soon.  Gave a lot more stuff to Goodwill and will try to sell off some more.  Who knows we may actually gain on this.
Sitting in Denver now as I keep counting down the trips I have to do until retirement.

2 comments:

Steve said...

Hang in there. You are about to realize the payoff for all those years of work! Let me know how the wi-fi works out.

Bill said...

I appreciate the positivity! Thanks.