Getting Close To Departure- Tidy Up & Packing

I kept picking away at my to do list and have finally decided that it is time to think about packing and letting other projects go until we are in the Mobile, AL area.

After a bit of screwing around with exchanging out my receiver and ultimately finding out that the wiring going to the speakers was bad, I now have a fully functional stereo, SiriusXM receiver and the ability to not only play MP3's off of one of my old phones, I can also bring along a portable CD player and pack a few CD's in as well.  This will also include the soundtrack from Hamilton which I recently received as a gift from my sister.

Since the old mount for the Sirius radio that was temporarily relocated from my sailboat was a flimsy plastic, I popped for a more expensive (and very solid) RAM Mount for my dash.  Along with the backup camera monitor and Sirius radio, my "control center" even includes a mount for my old Samsung tablet which I hope to use for navigation.

While I have more wiring projects I want to do later (including the addition on an inverter and solar system), I am done for now with the completion of the first stage.  I wired in a six-fuse sub-panel on the inside of the glove box for some new circuits.  I have one breaker the gives me a 12V outlet inside the glove box to use for power of any device with a cigarette lighter plug.  Currently, I'm using this to power the Sirius radio.  I have another circuit with a dual-usb outlet which will charge a phone or two and my tablet.  I will be powering this eventually directly from the house batteries and including a few circuits for fans.

Along with rebuilding my old windshield wiper arms and adding new blades, I hooked up a windshield washer system.  Trying to mount the spray heads on the cowling and then attach the hoses afterwards proved not only frustrating, but nearly impossible.

Being the master of the work-around again serves me well.  I managed to mount washer nozzles on the arms with ty-wraps used for stabilizing and then ran the small diameter tubing up through the center of the arms.

Did a bit of tweaking on the generator again to adjust idle mixture and high speed adjustment screws.  Set them to specification and then ran generator for about 45 minutes at varying loads.  Shows about 123V at no load (should be 130) so generator is not running quite as fast as it should.  Will adjust further as needed, but it sure is nice to be able to start it up and run electricity (including two heaters) as needed.

Also got a new, deluxe sewer hose (WhooHoo!) that we will use when we get to Mobile.