A Curve Ball at 2:30 this morning...

Things were all fixed on the trailer yesterday around 2PM so we decided to stay put for the night at the Oliver campground since it was a 4 to 5 hour journey to Tunica.  We figured to just leave in the morning and shave off a day from our visit there.  Well......at 0230 I was awakened to intermittent lights around the inside of the trailer and our furnace going on and off as if we had electrical issues.  The furnace started blowing cold air and finally shut itself down a few minutes later.  Then it would not come back on...grrr!!!  Not to worry, we have an electric space heater we pulled out of the basement and survived the night.  25 degree temps are not all that bad so no ice jams this time.  Service ticket submitted right away but, of  course, it's Friday night and Oliver is closed on weekends.  So we'll wait to see them Monday and cut out our trip to Tunica and head over to friends in Oklahoma instead....of course that will take us right by the "worlds tallest ice cream" station again :)  Good plan!!!!!!
After much internet research I found the thermostat to be the culprit and will not attempt a simple fix as Oliver's service department needs to know what happened.  We are only the second retrofit for this air-conditioner and the new thermostat has a design flaw they need to be aware of for other's future retrofits.

This on/off switch moves the metal arm away from a contact to open the circuit and shut off the furnace.  The on position allows the metal arm to return and make contact with a post behind it.  The flaw is in the switch being too hard to operate and I'm not going to bust it. Period.  How it worked in the shop is beyond my comprehension and I'll let Oliver come up with the fix.  Someone on the web camphored the edge of the switch to allow contact in the on position so they won't have to put so much force on it.  A $30 thermostat is going to delay us a couple more days.  On the bright side the campsite is free to us and then there's ice cream involved!!! :)