{"id":26617,"date":"2023-07-24T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=26617"},"modified":"2023-08-20T09:19:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:19:35","slug":"july-24-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/07\/24\/july-24-3\/","title":{"rendered":"July 24 Raining Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know I have used that quote before.<\/em><\/p>\n

My morning started like many others, problems to solve cats to be fed and loved. They didn’t need water thanks to the gigantic stainless steel bowl that came From Amazon.<\/p>\n

I ran my New LIFEP04 Battery too low again. Yes, I fell asleep again. I have a bright white led voltmeter hooked up. I learned that the difference between 24v and 0v is extremely close.<\/p>\n

I retrieved the charger and gassed up the gen. I went outside to look, dark, windy, scary but dry. I made sure the Gen top was covered in plastic. Just then, the rain poured out of the sky.<\/p>\n

I got soaked getting it started. Ya, electricity, and water, didn’t seem like a fun idea. So I shut off the gen and plugged the power cord in. Wearing rubber gloves, I started it again. The rain had slowed down as I was closing the door.<\/p>\n

Once I connected the charging cables, I saw a familiar response. The word off in Capitals. It meant no charging. I had an idea, I suspected that my Bluetti EB3A was back-feeding power. So I plugged in my DC input to the Bluetti, the other end was connected to my battery. For a second I had 21 volts and the charger came on, then quit. I tried it again, this time I left it plugged in for ten seconds. The charger came on and stayed on.<\/p>\n

I already have a twenty amp charger in my Amazon shopping cart, one that can do 0v charging, which means it can fix this problem. Just waiting for payday.<\/p>\n

I came back inside, right away, and logged in to a website that had Doppler radar for my area. The funny thing is that rain was at its end for the rest of the day. If I had waited even 5 minutes. I would have been dry. Rain is supposed to happen tonight and for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

I ran my charger all day and my battery is at 25.9 Volts. Most sites on the internet say that is 30 percent full. I don’t believe it, I think less. I will charge it more tomorrow. The new charger will charge it in 5 hours instead of 15. Soon I hope to have two 195w solar panels dedicated to charging that and future 24v batteries. I need another MPPT controller first. I also need to finish the new mounting system, then wire it all.<\/p>\n