| [GMCnet] Cross country adventure - part 11 [message #91205] |
Mon, 05 July 2010 20:16  |
Gerald Work
Messages: 102
Registered: June 2010
Karma:
|
Senior Member |
|
|
So far we have traversed more than 6,000,000 meters, actually a bit over 3800 miles with little or no issue. A starter solenoid and one tire so far. We are sitting Arcadia NP watching a placid Atlantic ocean that looks far more like a western lake than the rugged Pacific shoreline with which we are more familiar.
Fuel continues to go all over the place from seemingly good to seemingly atrocious. It became quite good through PA and NY but seems to have degenerated again in NH, VT and ME. All the pumps say 10 percent ethanol, but this fuel boils and wants to vapor lock even on minor hills. It is very hot and the issue is greater in the late afternoon when everything is well heat soaked, bit it still points to something different in the fuel. I am needing the aux electric fuel pump on most hills from 3:00 pm on. Hope the fuel improves in the Maritime Provinces.
I did finally solve the question of the 460 amp hours installed in this coach. A few days ago I talked about using 4 115 batteries and someone correctly pointed out that that would only result in 230 amp hours at 12 volts. At the time I thought I must have confused this installation with another I recently did using 8 of those 115s. I guess I just had a senior moment. When I did this coach I used four of the high density 6 volt Interstate batteries that have 232 amp hours each so the total is 460 amp hours at 12 volts as I originally thought. Sorry for the confusion.
An interesting observation for those of you who care is that we run the Fantastic vent all night long on these very hot nights. Even after watching sat. Tv in the evening and the next morning, running the lights until around 11 and fixing breakfast using the inverter for things like grinding coffee beans (not the MW or the toaster), recharging the iPad and phone, etc., we use only about 15 percent of the available battery capacity. Nice.
Driving the back roads on NE is very slow. Traffic can be quite heavy at times and the back roads are often not very good. Kinda like the topes in Mexico slow down traffic without any enforcement needed, these bouncy and rutted roads mixed with lots of traffic keeps speed way down all by themselves. Gas mileage also suffers and our overall for the trip is now at 8.4.
Another slow down occurred on the 4th. Seems the town of Gorham, NH has a really big holiday event including a parade and carny rides. The problem is they do so by closing US2 for an hour or so backing traffic up nearly all the way across the panhandle of the state. No signs, no warning, just dead stopped traffic with everyone wondering what happened ahead. Only in small town America I guess.
More later. For now, life is good and we are enjoying our year of travel celebration.
Jerry and Sharon Work
78 Royale rear lounge
Strong 455, 3:50 gearing
Sent from my iPad
_______________________________________________
GMCnet mailing list
List Information and Subscription Options:
http://temp.gmcnet.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gmclist
|
|
|
|
GMCforum
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
