Paul  decided that we should take the Highlander to work to get it repaired.  I verified that the problem was not the transmission, but the linkage.  With assistance from Paul on the brakes, it was possible to manually shift it into ‘drive’ from inside the engine compartment to allow us to drive it to the transmitting site.  Since it was not possible to downshift going down the hills, we drove slowly for the 15 mile trip and had no problems.

While I evaluated some transmitter ‘challenges’, Joel Harp took apart the gear lever linkage, discovered and repaired a plastic bushing that was cracked.  The repair was done in about an hour.

The HC100 has been tripping off very briefly several times during the past few evenings due to an optical arc detection.  I saw that the boiler feed pipe had a lot of ‘dirt’ particles in it.  Since there are peaks of 30,000 volts across this pipe, this could be the source of the problem.

Phil and I removed the pipe and cleaned it.  It was decided to flush the boiler for the tube as this is the primary source of the ‘dirt’ particles.  Having done the flush and reconnecting the pipe, Phil began to refill the system with clean water.  Fortunately, I was watching closely and noticed ‘dirt’ particles being carried into the feed pipe from the opposite end of the pipe from the boiler.  As a result, we determined it best to remove the feed pipe again, clean it again, and flush the system from the other side.  Hopefully, this will take care of those pesky trip offs,

I was also asked to look at the HC100 tunable harmonic filter and discovered that the active turns of the two coils are not the same — they should be the same!  It will be necessary to obtain some more information from the technology center in Elkhart to make the proper alignments.

Tonight we had supper — meat, mashed potatoes, gravy and corn — with the Gregowske’s, where we are temporarily staying.  We had been invited to see a movie at church, but decided to pass,  I was too tired and we had already seen this particular movie.