Travel from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California

We drove our coach 129 miles, about three hours of driving, from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

Route map

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

Leaving the KOA:

Leaving the KOA

Leaving the KOA

Always nice to see a Dutch Bros:

Dutch Bros

CA-99 freeway entrance:

CA-99 freeway entrance

Very California: bare hills, big pipes, grapes, and a pump jack:

Very California: hills, pipes, grapes, pump jack

Truck bypass:

Truck bypass

The Petro was a fuel stop option, but we didn’t need it:

The Petro was a fuel stop option, but we didn't need it

I’m sure there are hills up there somewhere:

I'm sure there's hills up there somewhere

Ah, there they are:

Ah, there they are

Rest area:

Rest area

Watch out birbs!

Watch out burbs!

A dump station at the rest area:

A dump station at the rest area

Tejon Pass, elevation 4144 feet:

Tejon Pass, elevation 4144 feet

Lake Hughes:

Lake Hughes

Downhill:

Downhill

Truck bypass:

Truck bypass

Exit to Santa Monica:

Exit to Santa Monica

Playing Weezer’s Beverly Hills when approaching Beverly Hills:

Playing Weezer's Beverly Hills when approaching Beverly Hills

Playing Everclear’s Santa Monica in Santa Monica’s unclear traffic:

Playing  Everclear's Santa Monica in Santa Monica

Exit to Long Beach:

Exit to Long Beach

Los Angeles River, actually with water in it near the coast:

Los Angeles River, actually with water in near the coast

Long Beach:

Long Beach

Arriving at Golden Shore RV Resort:

Arriving at Golden Shore RV Resort

Driving to our site:

Driving to our site

Our site:

Our site

Magnum inverter reset

Our coach has an inverter, which is a device to convert battery power into 110 volt electricity. It also manages charging the battery from the campground pedestal power.

One day the Magnum inverter panel in our coach reported an “Unknown Fault”:

Unknown Fault on the Magnum inverter panel

The fault and voltage display kept changing, with garbage values:

Unknown Fault on the Magnum inverter panel

Time to apply an old computer maxim: “when in doubt, reboot.” I looked up the instructions on how to reboot the inverter, in its manual under “Performing an Inverter Reset”:

Performing an Inverter Reset

Here’s the Magnum inverter unit in the basement; in our 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP motorhome it is mounted on the ceiling of the frontmost main storage compartment, on the driver side:

Magnum inverter unit

So I just needed to turn off the power at the pedestal, then hold down the button (below the green light in that photo) for 15 seconds. That did the trick.