There are always a bunch of items which need to be fixed or updated prior to camping season and our first trips in May.

While these are not necessarily super exciting projects – it is a reminder than an RV is a house on wheels that is jarred and jostled around a lot while out driving and camping. So – just like a house – an RV needs constant maintenance and repairs.

Generator Repair

My biggest major project was a generator panel which seemed to be inoperative. After some conferral with members of the Airstream Atlas Facebook group – I started chasing down some fuses to see if one of them was possibly blown.

I started with the 200A fuse located underneath the camper on the battery terminal. After lots of grunting and groaning to get underneath the camper – and a trip to the store to get some metric sockets – I found that this fuse was just fine!

After several days of work – I finally identified the blown fuse – a 30A blade fuse behind a panel I had not removed.

The good news – the generator is working great. The bad news – I have no idea why the fuse blew in the first place!

Compartment Strut

I also got to replace one of our struts that hold up our storage compartment doors. The first one Airstream sent was the wrong one – but a quick stop by the Airstream dealer in Spokane got me the correct one – which means the door won’t hit me in the head when I am getting items in or out!

Enough on the repairs – the Atlas is ready to go for camping!