RV Battery Drain and Maintenance Planning

Monday morning at a campground, arrived Wednesday (4-5 days into stay). Running RV engine to recharge drained chassis battery. Neighbors recently departed, leaving rswfire alone at the site.

Energetic Signature

methodical

Field State

tool building

Orientation

toward infrastructural competence

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August 26, 2024

19:06

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

0.00

[0:00]this life saw can be so damn weird we've

[0:03]woken up to a noise in

[0:06]RV have no idea what it

[0:15]is where is that coming

[0:25]from uhoh hope I didn't run my battery

[0:29]said

[0:31]forgot about this

[0:33]thing well we're plugged into

[0:38]Power well at least I figured it

[0:44]out I don't know I just woke up so that

[0:48]could actually be a problem that's um an

[0:50]always

[0:52]on what's it called v9

[0:56]V8 D12 what the hell is that called like

[1:00]I just woke up anyway it's always on

[1:04]draining from the battery that's part of

[1:07]the vehicle not the the camper part so I

[1:11]could

[1:12]have drained the battery we're going to

[1:14]have to find

[1:16]out oh man that had been there 4 days

[1:19]today is

[1:23]Monday many days cuz we got here

[1:25]Wednesday right I'm surprised time

[1:28]time's going pretty fast if

[1:31]it's damn

[1:34]really I probably have really drained

[1:36]that battery so we're going to have to

[1:38]turn on the engine and let it run I

[1:40]guess for a

[1:42]while how would I check to see how it's

[1:45]doing though like how do you check

[1:47]something I guess I'll have to I'll have

[1:49]to Google

[1:50]it so I'm going to talk about

[1:54]something I'm a little frustrated this

[1:56]morning because the video I posted

[1:59]yesterday it it is an hour long so I'm

[2:01]not surprised that most people won't

[2:02]watch it right I let me explain so I

[2:06]posted a video last tonight because of

[2:08]my Internet situation I don't really

[2:11]have a lot of control over when it ends

[2:13]up

[2:14]online and it it uploaded at around

[2:18]midnight and it is 9:00 in the morning

[2:20]here and it's had 3,500 views 25 people

[2:24]have watched it one person has liked it

[2:28]and on average they watched about 7

[2:30]Minutes of it so it's a very horrible

[2:33]clickthrough

[2:34]R but not real surprising given a couple

[2:38]of factors like it was overnight I have

[2:41]no it was shown to people who don't know

[2:43]me it was like 99% unsubscribed people

[2:46]was probably people from

[2:48]overseas you know cuz we're sleeping at

[2:50]that time and it's an hour long so not

[2:53]everyone's going to click on that

[2:56]totally get that but then

[3:00]those that do I just I are not

[3:03]interested in what I have to say you

[3:07]know and that's represented through the

[3:09]average view duration and the number of

[3:11]likes it get so it's like I'm just very

[3:14]frustrated I spend a lot of time on that

[3:16]one you know I'm I'm experimenting with

[3:21]new different ways of filming

[3:24]and I enjoy the process but it also has

[3:28]to be something that works for people

[3:30]because otherwise I can't invest the

[3:32]amount of time it takes I spend hours

[3:35]editing that on my desktop hours I all

[3:39]day from the time I got back until a

[3:42]couple of hours before it

[3:45]uploaded

[3:46]so and I was already thinking well that

[3:49]was too much effort you

[3:51]know juggling multiple cameras and

[3:55]syncing them up and all of that it's

[3:56]actually pretty difficult so I'm going

[4:00]to have to get better at it or

[4:01]streamline it or you know all of that

[4:03]like there's a lot of factors that are

[4:05]going through my head right

[4:06]now and so I'm just acknowledging how I

[4:09]feel right now I feel disappointed and

[4:12]frustrated and discouraged I feel very

[4:19]discouraged because I really need this

[4:22]to work and if it's not going to work

[4:24]then I need to give up on it I

[4:27]just that is that's attention for me

[4:29]right now that's where my head is so I'm

[4:32]sharing it okay so I got the vehicle

[4:35]turned on uh it's

[4:38]running AI says to give it like 30

[4:40]minutes so we're going to do that

[4:42]because I was been draining it's called

[4:44]the chassis battery so whatever you know

[4:46]the one with in the

[4:49]engine I guess we're running this for 30

[4:53]minutes man all the things you got to

[4:55]remember you know just a lot they just

[4:59]had that little tire monitor thing

[5:01]plugged

[5:03]in oh I should have well I'm kind of

[5:07]redoing the setup in there you know

[5:09]that's the only thing that was plugged

[5:10]in I didn't have my that partic it's

[5:13]called a 12vt that particular 12vt was

[5:16]it's always on there's another one that

[5:18]isn't it's only on when the engine is on

[5:21]and if I had plugged it into that this

[5:23]wouldn't have been a problem but this is

[5:26]part of the learning process and I'm

[5:27]going to

[5:29]um I have like this 12vt Hub that's

[5:32]usually plugged in there but you know I

[5:34]was cleaning out the cab area and stuff

[5:36]and I took down all of my mounts I'll

[5:39]fix that while we're here I'm going to

[5:41]have to add that to my list there's so

[5:43]much to do can't believe time's going

[5:46]too fast I wasn't even thinking about

[5:48]wow it's already like it's

[5:50]Monday and we got here Wednesday I I'm

[5:53]almost sure we got here

[5:56]Wednesday not to look that up I think it

[5:59]was Wednesday today it could have been

[6:00]Thursday but I think it was

[6:01]Wednesday so I'm really glad it had that

[6:04]warning system that's helpful

[6:06]right um I don't know how you check

[6:09]battery power I think I was asking Ai

[6:12]and it mentioned a multimeter and I have

[6:14]a thing I think might be what it's

[6:16]talking about so we're going to try that

[6:18]I guess I'm going to go look for it and

[6:20]see if we can check check

[6:23]it okay I have this thing and I asked a

[6:26]what to do it's going to go in that

[6:28]position there once we figure out how to

[6:30]open this I don't even know how to do

[6:33]that oh this is

[6:39]funny this is hard to De with one hand a

[6:42]feel like you

[6:45]just how do I not know how to open

[6:50]this so there might be something

[6:55]inside I'm going to have to move this

[6:58]way

[7:05]we want to open the

[7:11]hood literally don't know how to open my

[7:14]hood what is

[7:17]this WOW even

[7:21]more

[7:24]okay don't know how to open you

[7:29]I don't see

[7:34]anything wow got this thing 6 months and

[7:38]I don't know how to open my

[7:40]hood that is

[7:42]wild feeling unprepared

[7:46]today I've been meaning to get it into a

[7:48]shop cuz I want them to just check the

[7:50]oil and stuff like that so I don't know

[7:53]anything about engines there's

[7:57]a wonder what this is for

[8:00]afraid to do anything with it okay I

[8:04]think that was it oh there's this right

[8:07]here I pulled

[8:09]that I had it opened

[8:13]it yep it

[8:21]did give me a minute here figure out how

[8:24]this stays

[8:25]up I have no idea when this shut off but

[8:28]I did figure out Hood keeps itself out

[8:33]um there's an issue I think probably

[8:35]with that that doesn't look good to me a

[8:38]little bit dirty

[8:40]there I don't want to get this cleaned

[8:44]off um otherwise it looks fine to me

[8:48]like you know with my untrained eyes but

[8:52]the battery I forgot it's in

[8:56]here wait where is the battery

[8:59]there's a battery icon

[9:03]here oh my God I'm so unprepared for

[9:06]stuff like this how do

[9:10]you I don't understand where is my

[9:13]battery

[9:18]at like is it down

[9:26]here no

[9:29]I don't see a

[9:31]battery something's leaking over there I

[9:34]hope that's

[9:36]normal oh my

[9:39]God

[9:44]troubling there a battery icon so what

[9:47]do you

[9:51]do I'm going to have to ask Ai and these

[9:54]are

[9:56]fuses yes and those are fuses there's

[10:00]fuses all

[10:02]over um I have no idea how you even look

[10:06]at the battery that is insane let me ask

[10:09]a I okay so we couldn't check the

[10:11]chassis battery power

[10:14]because I think you unscrew those

[10:17]there's like three screws they look

[10:18]star- shaped to me I might have a tool

[10:20]for it I'm not sure I'd need to look but

[10:22]I let it run for 30 minutes I think it's

[10:24]probably fine so why I go through the

[10:26]effort we don't have to um when I

[10:29]planning to take it to an RV place

[10:31]anyways we can let them do

[10:34]that um it took me a minute to figure

[10:36]out how to shut the hood I had to ask Ai

[10:39]and even then it still took me a minute

[10:42]all this stuff is new you know it's all

[10:46]new I've never worked on a vehicle in my

[10:48]life so I don't know anything about the

[10:50]vehicle part of

[10:52]it I am a programmer so my I'm always

[10:55]been focused on computers in my mind

[10:58]I've never really dealt with practical

[11:00]challenges like

[11:02]this so it's all new that's what this

[11:05]channel is about you just embrace it you

[11:07]go with it and do your

[11:09]best so I think what we're going to do

[11:12]I'm going to go down to that place that

[11:14]I found the RV place and just talk to

[11:16]them tell them what my current

[11:18]challenges are find out if they can help

[11:21]us um let me just walk you through the

[11:23]ones that are on the outside because I'm

[11:25]going to share it with them too so um

[11:28]this store Bay starting to collapse I

[11:31]noticed I just I noticed that the other

[11:33]day there is towing or there's um the

[11:38]stuff you prop a vehicle up with it's in

[11:40]there it's

[11:41]heavy so I'm thinking I would have

[11:45]thought that it could handle that but I

[11:47]guess I guess it's a

[11:49]problem um don't know what to do about

[11:52]that cuz I wanted to carry that Gear

[11:54]with me but maybe we can't this is

[11:57]leaking water it's that's

[12:01]my why can't I think of words today

[12:03]whatever that thing is the awning um

[12:06]it's leaking water like right there you

[12:08]can see it oh it's in a few

[12:11]places that's leaking right or is it

[12:13]just like condensation I don't know I've

[12:15]never seen it do that before though so

[12:18]it feels new that's air conditioner

[12:21]water it's just you know it goes to the

[12:22]edge and then it drops down like it's

[12:24]supposed to but I've never seen it do it

[12:26]on the awning part so we got that issue

[12:30]oh look at that my

[12:32]little um tank monitor another one fell

[12:35]off cuz I couldn't keep them on myself I

[12:38]I need them to install those so we'll

[12:40]ask them about that

[12:42]too because I'm clearly not good at this

[12:45]stuff

[12:46]right this is the second one to fall

[12:51]off um what else we have going on

[12:55]here I want to get little things that

[12:58]prevent insect from getting in

[13:00]there just in case you know be proactive

[13:03]about

[13:05]that um slightly concerned about the

[13:08]tires but I do feel like we most those

[13:11]actually look pretty good but I can't

[13:12]reach one of them now because they had

[13:14]to take out

[13:16]them um no not this side the other

[13:21]side they had to take out

[13:24]the

[13:26]extender so we can reach one but we

[13:29]can't reach the other which means I

[13:30]can't check it I can't you know make

[13:32]sure that it's got enough air in

[13:36]it um let's see what

[13:40]else we need to have the slide looked at

[13:43]cuz it's making weird noises and it's

[13:44]not coming in and out um at the same

[13:47]rate on both sides that that's that's a

[13:49]new thing this side is struggling a

[13:52]little

[13:53]bit and it just makes a horrible

[13:57]noise we can probably even asked them to

[14:00]look at the power um there's a little

[14:02]power core thing in there that um had

[14:05]some arcing on it you know we did have a

[14:08]guy come out and look at it he said it's

[14:10]fine but I don't want to trust that I

[14:13]want someone else to look at it I want a

[14:14]second opinion and the same thing

[14:16]happened to my to that

[14:19]so um I just want this stuff looked at I

[14:22]want to feel comfortable that

[14:23]everything's working right I guess

[14:25]that's our plan today we're going to go

[14:27]and talk to the RV people

[14:29]and figure out

[14:31]if what this is going to cost me and how

[14:35]long they'll need and stuff like that

[14:37]time's getting away from me I mean if

[14:39]I've been here since Wednesday and it's

[14:40]Monday like almost a week oh here was

[14:43]another issue so many that speaker got

[14:46]loose somehow and came out so I got to

[14:50]get that

[14:51]fixed I guess they could ask them to

[14:53]just go up on the roof make sure

[14:55]everything's sealed up well I noticed

[14:57]that

[14:59]there's a bit of sagging on my air

[15:01]condition on the

[15:02]inside a little bit concerned about that

[15:05]like it just needs to be resealed

[15:07]probably just little things like that

[15:10]so guz that's what we're doing

[15:13]today I also want them to look at um I

[15:16]want to see if they can clamp down my

[15:18]solar stuff so that I don't have to keep

[15:19]pulling it down every time I move it can

[15:21]just be there and I know it's secure and

[15:23]isn't going to go anywhere so that was

[15:25]another

[15:26]thing um I kind of want to clean my Air

[15:28]Condition conditioning vents because

[15:30]there is a smell sometimes when that

[15:32]kicks on I tried fixing that myself and

[15:36]it's just it's an unreachable area for

[15:38]me I'm not really I I don't want to

[15:40]there's like wires and stuff I don't

[15:41]want to spray anything in there I have

[15:42]this stuff that's supposed to help but I

[15:45]didn't want to risk like getting the

[15:47]wires um so a lot of little things and I

[15:50]just remembered that yesterday we passed

[15:52]a place where an RV repair place that

[15:56]wasn't an RV dealers jip it looked like

[15:59]like an established business that might

[16:02]be exactly who you want to talk to so um

[16:05]we're going to we're going to check both

[16:07]though I'm going to go to both and tell

[16:09]them my problems and just see if I can

[16:11]get an estimate on time and

[16:13]cost so I guess today we're dealing with

[16:15]RV maintenance so I've been hanging out

[16:18]around this side of my RV cuz there's

[16:20]nobody over here so I've just been

[16:23]relaxing out you know I love my solitude

[16:25]and I don't like feeling observed and

[16:27]all these other qualities Le that I have

[16:30]those people just left we are alone now

[16:34]there's no one on this

[16:35]side yay get to hang out on our own Park

[16:39]our own picnic

[16:41]Ben oh that's I'm happy despite all

[16:45]these problems we are out here by

[16:48]ourself they're going to empty their

[16:50]tanks I can see them doing that and then

[16:53]they're leaving well I hope they're not

[16:54]coming

[16:55]back n they've emptied out their site

[16:58]there leaving so it's just us back

[17:03]here um you guys haven't seen my video

[17:06]cuz I talked about that but at the end

[17:09]of it I noticed most people were gone I

[17:10]was very happy about that and I know

[17:13]that most people aren't that way um it's

[17:16]not an antisocial thing guys it's just

[17:18]the way I am

[17:20]I I do a lot better when I'm on my alone

[17:23]when I don't feel like I'm being

[17:24]observed by others when I can just it's

[17:26]freedom to me it's liberation

[17:29]that's why I try so hard to find places

[17:31]where I can just be on my own because it

[17:35]dramatically influences how my internal

[17:38]State feels like them leaving just now

[17:41]is a huge lift off my shoulders and I

[17:43]know that that seems strange to most

[17:45]people but it's how I work and I embrace

[17:48]it and that's why I have this lifestyle

[17:50]and it's why I put so much effort

[17:52]into trying to match my environment so

[17:55]that it matches what works for me so

[17:59]despite all this stuff it's going to be

[18:01]a good day I been wanting to get it down

[18:03]to a place that I really wanted someone

[18:06]to just look at the engine because um

[18:09]nobody's done that yet you know and I

[18:11]don't know like if it needs new it

[18:13]doesn't have a lot of miles on it so it

[18:16]should be fairly good but that def thing

[18:18]looked weird to me and you know I just

[18:21]want to I want to be proactive about

[18:23]this stuff and I just haven't gotten it

[18:24]anywhere yet cuz I haven't really known

[18:26]where to take it I didn't want to take

[18:27]it to a place like camp world I'm not a

[18:29]fan of

[18:30]them um but we found a couple places and

[18:33]you know that was part of the plan um

[18:35]while I was here um I actually expressed

[18:38]that on patreon so you might not have

[18:39]heard me talk about it but I made a long

[18:41]list of things that um I need to get

[18:45]done and we just added a whole bunch of

[18:47]new ones but they're all related and you

[18:49]know that's I thrive on that sort of

[18:51]thing um I'm going to plan my day I'm

[18:55]adapting my day based on um the

[18:58]situation from this morning and the

[19:00]other factors that I was already

[19:02]considering and we're just going to do

[19:03]them all so stay tuned

Summary

rswfire wakes to an unknown noise in the RV and discovers a tire monitoring device has been draining the chassis battery for four days. After running the engine for 30 minutes to recharge, he attempts to check the battery but struggles with basic vehicle maintenance tasks like opening the hood and locating the battery. He identifies multiple RV issues requiring professional attention: collapsing storage bay, water leaking from awning, fallen tank monitor, slide-out problems, loose speaker, and air conditioning concerns. Plans to visit local RV repair shops for estimates on maintenance work. Expresses frustration about a recent hour-long YouTube video receiving poor engagement metrics (3,500 views, 25 watchers, 1 like) despite significant editing effort. Feels relief when neighboring campers leave, allowing him solitude at the campsite.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission maps the material substrate of mobile sovereignty - the technical systems, maintenance requirements, and practical competencies needed to sustain autonomous living. It demonstrates the recursive relationship between physical infrastructure mastery and psychological liberation, where mechanical competence enables territorial freedom.

Dominant Language

I don't knowunpreparednewfigure outliberationproactiveembrace it

Symbolic Elements

batteryenginehoodchassisthresholdterritory

Ontological States

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learning
•
adapting
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sovereign
•
embedded

Subsystems

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cognitive
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infrastructural
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somatic

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

19:06

Bitrate

3711 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028