{"id":14110,"date":"2020-12-29T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=14110"},"modified":"2020-12-30T20:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:14:54","slug":"dec-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/29\/dec-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 30 Charging"},"content":{"rendered":"

The greatest power is often simple patience. <\/strong><\/p>\n

E. Joseph Cossman<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00cc woke like other mornings, cold and in pain. My throat pain was worse today. I went into the village and retrieved my gen. Batteries are charging.<\/p>\n

I found a few lies by Hyundai. The fuel tank was less than 5L, not the 6they say. The output is less than the advertised 1500 the manual says 1400 I doubt even that. But it does charge my batteries at full velocity (20 amps). That was the most important thing.<\/p>\n

For fun, I tried the electric log splitter, the generator immediately died and was hard to start again. I am now charging my solar batteries, my laptop and will try to start the Xbox to see what happens.<\/p>\n

The Xbox is running but of course, there is a seven hundred megabyte update that needs doing. I can charge my solar batteries, charge my laptop and use the box at the same time. But I am running the box and laptop through the solar batteries and inverter. Tomorrow I will try bypassing those to see if I can run all three through the gen directly. So far we are at 5 hours. We will see if it lives up to its 11-hour runtime as advertised. It seems to only run at one speed full open. So far I haven’t seen a throttle and I don’t think it adjusts its speed according to load as the Honda does.<\/p>\n

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I guess my only method of splitting wood is with my broken back. Ouch, that is also done for today. Now I really hurt. Going to the village paying my bills, getting some groceries, lugging all that inside plus moving, preparing and starting the gen then chopping wood, was way over my pain threshold.<\/p>\n

Now that the gen is here I can say I survived since Dec 13 with almost no power. Solar couldn’t keep up, too many cloudy days and the sun is too low.<\/p>\n