Boondocking again near Catalina, AZ

Back on AZ State Trust Land near Catalina, AZ. since Wednesday this week.

I got here after displacing from Gila Bend and finished the repairs to the slideout system on the VRRV and power issue for the control board in the VRRV's Norcold N811LT Refrigerator.

Got the replacement slideout controller via Amazon yesterday and it works!  All is well now with the slideout.  No more rigging bypass wires, manual overrides but both are now viable options in case of failures in the future.

I will be ordering a spare control board for the fridge as its quite Norcold is no longer supporting it and components thereto.

Here's a shot of the connector to the old slideout controller.  Note the damaged pins due to extreme heat and apparently some corrosion.  A new connector has been ordered but this one works fine for now as well.

The 12 volt bypass wire, coming up from below the fridge where the fuse panel is located.

Refrigerator Control Board.

P/N 621991001

The new slideout controller in place.

p/n: Lippert 10566, Power Gear 135666

A shot or two to celebrate everything fixed for now:

Last night's sunset after finishing the repairs on the VRRV:

Lots of resting and relaxing the last couple of days, very much the preferred mode of boondocking for me.

I returned the rather expensive $69 multimeter that I got from NAPA back at Gila Bend to aid in troubleshooting procedures.  (my old multimeter was giving bad readings).  While it worked fine, the volume on its continuity tester sucked!  I could barely hear it and that's with hearing aids in and turned up to max gain.

I went to the NAPA in Tucson and tried a different one, same weak signal, so back it went for a refund.  It was the TrueBlue Jr. Multimeter.  I can't recommend it.

I got a replacement multimeter via Amazon today, a Klein MM325, a better reputation brand and much nicer, for almost half the price!  $34.

Nice and loud beeps when needed!

I went walking about the area for almost two miles to get some exercise, some pics along the way:

The Catalina Mountains during today's Golden Hour:

Mount Lemmon