Wow! The 60 Second Binary Options Strategy

Tried trading a new strategy Friday, the 60 second binary options strategy Friday afternoon for the last  hour of trading (NY hours) 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The 10 minute strategy I'd used with success  earlier in the week was handing me about 57%  losses  Thursday and Friday morning trading the EURUSD currency pair options. Nothing but chop and whipsaws. Very nasty. But then I decided to try Tim Lanoue's Most reliable 60 Seconds Strategy trading the USDJPY currency pair binary options. Wow! It was terrific.I loved only 60 second exposure to the market and the winning percentage was very good the last hour of trading, about 67% winning  4 out of 6 trades.

USDJPY came to life right at 3:00 and it lasted until 4:00. Will trade this again during the Monday morning session which is 9:00 to 12:00 Eastern time. Here are the instructions for setting up the indicator in MT4:

1. In MT4 go to the Navigator window and click MACD under indicators. The grey custom indicator box opens. Click on the Inputs tab. Highlight the value box next to Fast EMA Period and change it to 9. Then Highlight the value box next to Slow EMA Period and change it to 20. Then Highlight the value box next to Signal SMA Period and change it to 3. The Fast EMA shows up as bars instead of a line but whenever the little bars poke above the Slow EMA line it is a bullish signal and whenever the Slow EMA line crosses above the little bars it is a bearish signal same as the two lines in the Free Stock Charts.
   Below is the screen capture of the last hour of trading in the USDJPY currency pair.
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3. If you click on the above image it should enlarge so that you can see how the indicator gave accurate signals. Try paper trading this a few days before putting your money on the line. 

How to Fund Your RV Adventures with Binary Options!

Having great success learning to trade Binary Options. Special thanks to Michael Freeman and his simple strategy here: Novice 10 Min. Binary Options Strategy  Today I'm sharing my simple 70%+ successful trading strategy which is based on Mike's simple trading rules. Binary options let you build a reliable income quickly on as little as $100 startup capital which can be charged to a credit card.   It's important to avoid the scams in binary options so check them out on the Binary Options Watch Dog. That's also where I read about Michael Freeman who is a trader who shares his expertise with the public for free. You can go to Michael's website and register with a for real binary options broker through him and you can join up with Michael's signals for free.
  Since I registered with CherryTrade.com  myself, I couldn't sign up with Michael for free. However he freely shares his strategies on his website as you can read for yourself using the "Novice" link above. If you, like me, are not much of a joiner you may be interested in what I've discovered so far using Mike's "Novice 10 Min. Binary Options Strategy" along with my two additional rules:  trade only NY trading hours from 9 a.m-12 p.m.; and avoid trading if general market volume is low, like below 50 using the Volumes Indicator under the Volumes File in the Navigator section of the MetaQuote4 screen. I like the red and green bar indicator and don't really understand the others.

That aside, if you can tell when a yellow line crosses over a blue line (or in my case a pink line crosses over an aqua line) you can trade binary options with a 74% -77% win rate trading the 5 min., 10 min, or 15 minute options on currency pairs only, as per Mike's instructions. My results below are trading the EURUSD currency pair binary options only. First before reading Mike's instructions about which options to trade, I tried trading the 60 second and 3 minute options but that resulted in about a 50% success rate or should I say failure rate. Sure way to lose money trading binaries. Then I began trading the 5 min. and the 15 min. options on the EURUSD currency pair. Huge difference. With the 5 min. options I have a 27% loss rate or a 73% win rate. Trading the 15 min. options I have a 17% loss rate or a whopping 83% success rate trading New York trading hours only from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (i.e. 7 a.m-10 a.m.Mountain Time) which gives me an average of 12 trades per morning. Possibly the afternoon hours from 2-4 p.m.Eastern might also be lucrative but these remain in the testing stage as I really only want to trade 3 hours in the morning. Of course New York goes to lunch from 12-2 pm so stop trading at 12 Eastern unless you like to trade a flatish market. It just makes successful trading much more difficult for me so my advice would be to quit at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time and be done with it for the day. Spend the rest of your day RVing, or hiking, or painting, or whatever.
    I really like the free MT4 software. What a nice chart. Or you can use Free Stock Charts if you prefer . Mike likes them but you can only use them with the Firefox browser. My broker recommends using Chrome for their platform so that's what I use. So far I really like the MT4 charts the best. No ads on these charts and you download the software to your computer.

You can get the software from Forex.com here for free: MetaQuote4. Once you download the software here's how I set up the chart. Click the New Chart Icon (its the one with the green plus mark on it on the left of the tool bar.Select EURUSD from the Market Watch window on the left side of the screen below the tool bar. 

Now set the chart to 1 minute intervals. Click Charts, click Periodicity, Click M1 1 Minute.

 I like Candlestick charts rather than bar charts but you can use either one you prefer. The chart style is available under Charts on the menu, select from bar charts, candlesticks or line charts in that window. Any will work but a line chart might get confused with the MA lines you're going to set up next so don't use a line chart.

 Now set your two moving averages up. In the Navigator window select Moving Averages. A box will open. In the Period space set it to 3, MA Method set to Simple, Apply to set to Close, Style set color to Magenta (I can see this color on the black background and also when it crosses the solid candlesticks but you can use any color you can see). In the center space select the continuous solid line. In the last space select whatever width of line you prefer and can see.  Click OK. If you don't like your MA lines then click on your chart's line a little box will open choose edit and make your changes when the MA box opens. Repeat this process for the second moving average line except set the Period space to 10 and make the color different than your first line's color.  Your goal here is to make your moving averages your signal to buy an option and tell you which one to buy, either the put or the call. Once you have your chart set up you are ready to trade (paper trade for several days first so you get the feel of when to place your orders) Never trade real money until you've paper traded to make sure you understand how and when to place your orders. Keep track of how well you do on each trade including your mistakes. LOL! We all make them and usually they cost you. 

For the software to work you must be connected to the internet. I use Verizon mobile broadband with an old fashioned 3G Pantech USB modem on my old Dell XP laptop. It usually works very well wherever I am as long as you have a signal. According to the tech guy at Verizon the 4G jetpack's speeds will just mess up the old XP computers so if you have an oldie like mine stay with the slower 3G modems. I bought 3 spares on Ebay for $10 as insurance in case mine goes kaput.

The object with binary options is merely to correctly decide which direction an asset price is going to move. That's what the moving averages are going to tell you plus when to buy your option.  Only trade Currency Pairs for this strategy as I've never tried anything else, and I've only traded the EURUSD. Whenever the 3 MA line (Magenta in my case) crosses the 10 MA line (Aqua in my case) buy a 5, 10 or 15 min. EURUSD binary option in the same direction as the 3MA line is going. If it is crossing to go above the 10 MA line buy a call. If it is crossing below the 10 MA line buy a put. That's it. The option will expire in the money 74-77% of the time according to Mike Freeman.Do this every time the 3 MA line crosses the 10 MA line. I do this from just after the NY open at 9 a.m. Eastern Time until 12 a.m. Eastern. You might avoid trading on the day before a holiday since the markets are thinly traded and normally only open part of the day.

As long as the price of the stock, EURUSD, is above the price when you purchased your call option when the option expires you will win. In the same way as long as the price of the stock is below the price when you purchase your put option when the put expires you will win. Very simple. At CherryTrade.com The 5 min. options cost $5 and pay out $8.50 so the profit is $3.50. They don't seem to have the 10 min. options so I like the 15 min. options which cost $25 and pay out $45 if you win. When you lose, you will lose about 30% or less most or all of the time, you lose your entire premium of $5 or $25. Another thing the 5 min. time value begins when you purchase the option. The 15 min. binary options are different. They expire on the quarter hour. So you might buy a 15 min. option at 9:10 a.m. and it will expire at 9:15 a.m.. But it still costs $25 and it pays out $45 if you win.

Other brokerages may handle this differently. But you can check that out when you sign up. Be careful which brokerage you choose. Many of them are scammers so check out legit brokers through the Binary Options Watch Dog (link above) or sign up through Mike Freeman's website. He has several good brokers he's affiliated with and then you can also get his signals for free if that is of interest. Depending on which broker you sign up with you can fund your account with as little as $100. I went with CherryTrade.com which lets you start with $200 and you can use your credit card to fund it. $100 would afford you 20 $5 options trades, more than enough to build an income up on with a 70% win rate. Don't be afraid to look into binary options as a potential source of dependable income whether you are an RVer or not. It will cost you absolutely nothing to paper trade in order to see the ease of it and the financial potential for yourself.

Aspen Autumn in the Rockies Painting

Hope you enjoy my latest paintings

Summer Boondocking at Army Corps of Engineers Campground, Conchas Lake State Park, New Mexico

    The land where time as the world counts it no longer exists, time of day is now, the urgent intrusion of society’s regimented day is a thing of the long past, at least by a day. Boondocking in my RV at the all but deserted Army Corps of Engineers Conchas Lake, New Mexico campground. Army Corps of Engineers Campground Lake Conchas , The Campsitephotos.com video shows the most improved campgrounds and doesn't feature the largely unimpoved campground operated by Army Corps of Engineers that I stayed at. But it's a nice video of the area so here's the link: Conchas Lake Campgrounds Video The entrance to this campground is the farthest south. It is actually the last camping area south.  I had to drive around a bit until I saw a sign for it.  A sailboat drifts around its anchor in lazy circles out in the quiet cove with only its flag fluttering at the top of its bare mast.  Days are hot for this early in June, the 5th, when I got here.  The dominant sound is of the soughing breeze in the Chinese elm trees that are outside my door, punctuated occasionally by the chattering birds or a distant motor boat out on the lake, crickets and locusts and katydids.  Some of these wonderful bugs sound almost metallic in their hum.  What glorious organs for sound the Lord has created for even these smallest of creatures to sing their praises. It’s easy for my heart to be still here as my thoughts are turned from what is highly praised by the world as life but which is little more than clamorous effort to ignore God or obscure Him.

     Today I will wear my swimsuit with maybe some shorts as my only concession to covering up.  There is no one close enough to see or care.  Time to get some sun on my flaccid flesh. There is no cell service and no internet here.  I can’t communicate even if I wanted to.  There are no intrusions…from anything human anyway.
    Temperatures were 99 in the RV until the sun went down.  The temperature was 75 this morning after I got up. The dogs and cats soon learned the pleasures of being wet on a hot day.
    Got to use my solar panels, inverter and batteries.  Ran a fan in the afternoon, lights, and then TV in evening just to see how it worked. Wow! How freeing.

    The stars were a frosty mass across the night sky last evening, last warm evening, 85 at bedtime, late lightning to the south.  Am so grateful that I have water provided at this huge wide open campsite.  Was going to leave this morning but the peace of this place has convinced me to give it another day.  We were hot when we got here and set up after noon.  Today I walked the dogs in my jammies and a robe. A cool breeze is wafting from the north of the lake.  At this rate I can see how one day can lead to another, and another, and another…in one endless seam with free water at a free campsite that is huge and uncrowded (deserted).  I am the only one here besides the camp hosts and I have sand in my shoes!
  “…The Lord will bless his people with peace.” Ps. 29:11.
All those years when I’d dream of fulltime Rving…this was what I had  pictured in my mind.  You don't experience it until  boondocking, free from all the constraints of full hookups in an urbanized and sometimes crowded space in what seemed like a parking lot.  Only people with money can afford what I am enjoying today for free because I am not limited to spaces with hookups.  My solar panels batteries and inverter were well worth this freedom.
     I walked the dogs in utter solitude last night.  I love the precious tiny lizards that scurry from the cover of a tiny tuft of grass to the  roots of the tree and back again this morning.  Morris is examining a cute little green stinkbug.  He will get a surprise if he threatens her.  Lucky for him the lizard has captured his attention.
    There is something unexpectedly glorious about not having many of the “conveniences” of modern life.

Paintings Update

Have been doing some fun painting in my wonderfully mobile RV studio. Here's an update for those who are interested.

Have opened a Gallery on Etsy.com . Here's a link WyomingRoaming Gallery

Easy 1 Minute Do It Yourself Tough Waterproof RV Ceiling Vent Pillow

Winter RVing calls for vent pillows. Make your own in a flash without sewing a stitch. If you can stuff an envelope and seal it you can do this. For each vent you will need a square of  1" thick craft foam that can be cut to about an inch larger than your vent opening frame, and a 14.5"x19"  self-sealing white poly mailing envelope (I used padded bubble poly mailers since they are nice and puffy but plain poly mailers would work too just be sure to get your foam cut an inch larger than your vent opening).

 My vent frames are about 14.5x 14" so I cut my foam into about a 15"x15"x1" squares.  I stuffed one foam square into a poly mailer and pulled the flap down far enough to make the envelope snug around the foam then sealed it. Voila! I had a waterproof vent pillow. I stuffed one in each vent opening and they work wonderfully.

 Being in a poly envelope makes them tough and waterproof, too! I purchased the 1" squares of 16"x16"craft urethane foam squares in packages of 2 in the sewing and craft notions at Wal-Mart for about $6.00 per package.You can purchase the large mailers in Wal-Mart's office supplies section or office supply stores for about $1 or $2 apiece.. E-SupplyStore.com has 25 for $12. I already notice the difference in the RV. I've been able to retain heat without running my heaters nearly as often even when the wind is blowing. If they get grimy just wipe them off with a damp cloth. They're waterproof and I have 3 of  them for a total of about $16 or about $4 apiece.

Campsite Photos Dot Com

I absolutely love this website and their YouTube videos. Fun to see where the good places to park are in state campgrounds etc.. Pick your state and your park and watch the video review of each campsite. Total fun. Check it out. Campsitephotosdotcom You Tube Channel

Just can't stop painting. North Platte River Bend at Henry, Nebraska. Such a peaceful bend at sunset.

RV Art Studio

Below is a shot I took tonight of my RV Art Studio. It's small but it works for me and its completely mobile! This is where one of the little recliners used to sit in the back by the picture window. Now it's my studio and I love it. Need to dust my modeling light off though!

Here's my latest painting, Jenny Lake Reflections

My Latest Paintings of Wyoming and Nebraska

Have been doing some painting the past couple of months. Moved one of my old recliners that had failed out of the back of the RV and set up  my studio by the picture window where the chair used to sit. Of course my window faces north here so that is perfect non directional light for painting during the daytime. I love my new mobile studio. So many days it was impossible to paint outside, too cold, too windy, too hot.... Now I can paint in the comfort of the RV night or day. See what you think of my paintings.

The above painting is Aspen Lace.

This one is called Midnight Flight.

This is the first in my Nebraska Oregon Trail Landmark Series, Guardian of Mitchell Pass, Scotts Bluff National Monument. If you've never visited this place be sure to put it on your bucket list. They have a wonderful collection of William Henry Jackson photographs, the largest in the world, at the visitors center.

 This is Oxbow Bend Evening, with gorgeous Mt. Moran as the subject.

Midsummer Tetons from the Broken Pine

Below Treeline at Douglas Lake in the Wind River Range

. The Birdwatcher depicts my rescued siamese, Macaroni. I tried to capture the maniacal look he gets in his eyes whenever he watches birds. This is done as an ACEO card which is only 2 1/2" x 3 1/2".

. As you can see I have pretty good light in my RV studio even at night with my modeling light if not a lot of room. But a great view out the windows always!

Dog Ramp for RVing

If you have an elderly dog that can't make it up the RV steps you will want to check out this great Solvit Dog Ramp as used and reviewed by bloggers, Love Your RV. Here's the link to their review: Solvit Dog Ramp Below are their pictures of the ramp on their 5th wheel and their elderly dog, Oscar. While you're there be sure to check out the rest of their wonderful blog.

Moonlight Lake Camp Brooks Lake, Wyoming

There are some fantastic alpine lakes in Wyoming that are lovely midsummer destinations. This Midnight Black  painting I did today inspired by lovely Brooks Lake at Midnight. This lake is located NW of Dubois, Wyoming. You can hear the owls hoot and the crickets chirping already can't you?

 Spent many wonderful summertime days at this lake with my family in years gone by. Due to its high altitude don't expect the snow to be gone until mid June. Spoke to one of the rangers and he said the campground works for 5th wheels. His parents had no trouble navigating with their 27 ft. Fifth Wheel Trailer.  Check it out Brooks Lake

Adventures in Full Time RVing Video Series

There are no stupid questions. If you are considering RVing full time or part time check out this excellent series by Tracy Seekins. She answers many questions potential and current RVers might have regarding the RVing lifestyle.  Our Adventures In Full Time RVing

Frigid Weather RV Living

    I love my propane furnace and Wave 8 radiant heater (also propane).

 This winter has been a bit colder and nastier than in the past few years due to several very windy arctic cold spells with one going on right now. Our present temperature is 1 F. Our low last night officially was -4 F but according to our thermometers it was -20 or better out by Bear Mountain. Our high yesterday was 9 F with lots of winds gusting to about 30 mph with snow. Made for some very icy wind chills. Today is a warming trend. We are to get up to a high of 20 F with lows of 14 F.

   When the temps get below freezing I start running my RV furnace to keep water lines from freezing. I have electric heat blankets on my holding tanks to keep them liquid.
    But running the propane furnace can get expensive. It's quite possible to winter without using one's water system if you use a portable water container/s and just heat water on the stove or in the microwave or use the coffee maker for enough hot water to wash a dishpan  full of dishes. You can suspend a camp shower in the shower filled with warm water for a really nice shower without having to use the water system or simply fill a bucket with warm water for a nice sponge bath.
        I think for the rest of the winter I will set up my small space heater in the basement on low to keep those water lines liquid in lieu of running  the propane furnace and run  my other small electric ceramic disc heater along with my Wave 8 to heat the upstairs. That will really save on the propane bill for the rest of the winter by not running the furnace which wastes heat since it heats the outdoors.
      New Mexico RV neighbor Bill heated his Cougar 5th wheel using only his electric space heater and one stove burner set on low.  The other night my electric cord connection shorted out and I didn't have a spare cord so I couldn't run anything other than 12 volt electric and didn't want to drain my coach batteries using the furnace. The lows that night were about zero. So, I adapted Bill's system to my situation. I turned my Wave 8 propane heater to High and turned one stove burner to high.  That kept my coach at about 68 all night in spite of a cold wind. If things were colder I could have turned on the oven or more burners as needed. In my RV there is enough outside air exchange I don't have to worry about carbon monoxide poisoning. Your situation might be different so you should monitor that carefully and have a CO detector.

 If you don't have the electric heat blankets or are off the grid it's a good idea to pour some of the pink RV antifreeze into each of the drains after dumping the holding tanks each time and keep adding a little as the tanks fill up. That will keep things from freezing in the tanks. If you do have a freezup in the tank or drain Alan Sills has a good solution in his new video. He also shares how he avoids using much propane in his coach, about 100 gallons for 2 months. He is parked at Steamboat Springs, Colorado again this winter.  Take it away Alan: Unique Solution To a Clog in the Gray Water System
  Ever wonder why the weather may be changing? Here's an interesting review of Earth Changes:
Signs of Change . Don't let the day of the Lord overtake you like a thief. Check out this timely message from Jack Chick: Somebody Angry?

How to Back Up an RV Trailer.

Here's Pete's RV showing us how to back up our trailers. How to Back Up A Trailer

RV Leveling Tips!

Pete's RV gives some great tips on how to level an RV with ease. You don't need an expensive hydraulic leveling system if you use these easy tips and the tri- leveler (or three tri-levelers if you're leveling a motorhome).   Check out this video: Quick Leveling Tips

Sinks Canyon State Park, Lander, Wyoming

Alan Sills does a very nice video review of Lander, Wyoming, and the spectacular Sinks Canyon, the Popo Agie (pronounced papozhee) River, and the famous (to us locals anyway) switchback road, which used to be single lane gravel but now is two lane paved! In the old days if you met someone going the other way you had to back down the road as there was no getting past each other, lol.
    This gorgeous state park is near my hometown of Riverton, in Fremont county, Wyoming. Lander is the county seat of Fremont county and you can't find a nicer place to vacation in my opinion. Alan takes you up to the top of the switchbacks but keep on going over the mountain and down the other side for gorgeous Alpine lakes and a view of  historic Atlantic City  and South Pass City, both famous ghost towns. You will love it. Also visit the trout pool at the entrance of Sinks Canyon for spectacular views of some of the biggest trout you will ever see. Lots of really nice fishing in the river and some beautiful cross country skiing trails, too. Also wonderful trails in the area for hiking, or trail riding if you bring your horses. Enjoy! Sinks Canyon

Great Boondocking Website

Some of the most relaxing camping I've done has been while boondocking. Here's a great website featuring wonderful videos of boondocking campsites, articles, maps etc.. Be sure to check out RV Boondocking Adventures . Enjoy!

50's Renaissance Trailer Stories Video Links

Who says you have to spend a lot of money to go fulltime RVing? Check out this couple's dream of eventual fulltime living in a Teardrop: Teardrop Trailer Video.

Another cute 50's trailer used for fulltime living video: Comet - Tiny House Video
You sure don't have to buy a big expensive rig to fulltime RV.

EZ-Snap Do It Yourself RV Skirt Winter 2013-14 Results

Third winter results for the EZ-Snap Direct 's RV Skirt after enduring seven contiguous days straight of below freezing days and sub zero nights (e.g day highs -1F, nighttime lows -19F) in December, three days straight in January and so far seven days straight of below freezing highs and sub zero lows in February.

 (See my previous posts for my experiences of the ease of designing and putting on the skirt).
     I had a water line freeze up the second night of the December cold streak and the second night of the February cold streak but no problems at all during the January cold streak possibly because there was little or no wind at that time and the low temperatures were not as cold. December and February there was a cold wind blowing so the wind chills were -40 F even though the December actual low was only -17 F and the February lows to date were -19 F with -40 F wind chills again. The January cold streak lows were -12 F actual temperature without the wind chill so I had no problems with freeze ups in January at all.
     My little ceramic disk space heater that I used the prior two years in my basement had given out last fall and I did not replace it this year. I think if I had the small space heater going on low blowing on the water line inlet into the heated basement my water lines would not have frozen up.
     Both times the water freeze-ups occurred about 4-5:00 a.m. when the temps get the coldest. My rig is manufactured stupidly so that the water tank is blocked off from the heated basement and the water line freezes between the tank and the hole where it enters the heated basement (the water tank itself has a heat blanket as do my other holding tanks). The small space heater blowing on low toward that aperture where the lines come into the heated basement probably would have solved the problem on those coldest nights.
      Winds have been extremely high and continuous most of this fall and winter. We clocked one gust of 110 mph on my neighbors weather station. My skirt could be made more airtight (I'm not mechanical or very handy at all) by the addition of some simple foam rubber insulating strips above where the snaps are and I left a gap under my staircase which I need to close up with the addition of some of EZ-Snap's RV skirting Velcro that will stick to the fabric.

 The industrial grade Velcro I use around the rig did not stay on the fabric and let the flaps underneath my staircase gap a bit this year (it did last for a couple of years though!).
     If you have any questions or comments I'd be happy to answer them if I can. However the Experts at EZ-Snap can probably give you all the information you need. Another winter possibility would be to add some of the thin styrofoam type sheets of insulation underneath the skirting. I got this tip from EZ-Snap a couple of years ago. I haven't tried this as I wanted to find out just how well the skirt would work by itself since I wanted to keep the operation as simple as possible and didn't want to tote around a bunch of insulation whenever I moved.  Before I had the skirt the RV froze up when I was in Cheyenne, Wyoming with a low of about +14F.  The addition of the RV skirt has been a very great success as far as my experience of Wyoming winter time RVing goes, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to winter RV in colder climates.

Flo-Jet Macerator Pump Tips and Problems?

Freedom from sewer hookups is the result of owning a Flo-Jet Macerator Pump. It is one of the handiest devices that I purchased for RVing.

 I can park anywhere regardless of sewer hookup availability. I can dump my tanks without the necessity of moving my RV. The addition of a large Thetford Blue Boy sewage tote like the one below (except mine is bright blue) just added to my independence.

 Using the Flo-Jet I can dump my tanks anytime. I leave my Blue Boy in the bed of my pickup and use the Flo-Jet to pump my holding tank contents into the tote. Then I simply drive to a sewer dump and dump the tote without removing it from the bed of the truck-- whoosh! and I'm done. Or if, as at present, I'm parked some distance from a sewer inlet I can simply pump my tank contents directly into the septic tank using just the garden hose.

     That being said, I have had a couple of problems with the Flo-Jet that were totally due to my own ignorance (I'm not mechanical, remember). Since it has been so cold this winter I decided that I didn't need to connect the fresh water hose to the Flo-Jet since I always dump black water first and then finish with the gray water tanks to clean everything out. But with temperatures down in the negative figures at night since the first of December I think some of the contents of the black tank were ...frozen and more solid than normal. It sounded like ice cubes going through the pump and then clinkity clank my Flo-Jet stopped! Now what???? Well what I should have done and what I did were two different things. Live and learn!

      I closed my black water tank valve and removed the Flo-Jet. Ooops. Live and learn.  What I should have done was simply change the little knife fuse in the small fuse housing that sticks out of the base of the handle of the push button switch controller which had blown because of the pump binding up on the partially frozen contents of the black tank. Then I should have attached the fresh water hose to the Flo-Jet's fresh water connection and run it on low pressure at the same time while I was pumping the black tank contents through the Flo-Jet. I finally did this and the fresh water blending with the frozen black water was sufficiently liquid to allow the Flo-Jet to work like a whiz. Very simple fix especially for winter black water pumping with your Flo-Jet. Always be sure to let your Flo-Jet back flush with its fresh water connection open for several minutes after you are finished pumping your tanks out. This keeps the Flo-Jet from getting jammed up with dried up poop between jobs which can also bind the pump (ask me how I know this, haaaaaaa) and blow the little knife fuse. Size of that fuse is a 20. Better stock up. I bought a whole box of assorted knife fuses for about $15 at Walmart.

    Also be sure to turn your Flo-Jet motor on BEFORE you open its fresh water valve unless you want your Flo Jet to explode off of your sewer pipe. Yes, I learned that one the hard way, too. lol. Thankfully it was hot weather when I made that mistake.

     Thanks goes to my neighbor, Larry York, for teaching me the proper care and maintenance of my Flo-Jet both for summer and winter pumping.