{"id":28885,"date":"2023-11-08T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=28885"},"modified":"2023-11-08T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:17:16","slug":"nov-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/11\/08\/nov-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 8 More Charging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electricity is really just organized lightning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Carlin<\/strong><\/p>\n

I need to run the gen again eventhough the solar panels are producing. Those are charging the battery A. Battery B is hooked to a charger run by the gen.<\/p>\n

Both batteries are not fully charged but need to be to be hooked together in paralel.<\/p>\n

The gen and solar panels are both charging batteries, cats are fed and watered, the outside cats too. I am soaked in sweat and relaxing now. I did have to carry 40 pounds of cat food up from the van and forty pounds of water.<\/p>\n

Its all done, except my breakfast. Except battery B is fully charged the charger just shut off. After ten minutes of charging. I guess breakfast will have to wait. I need to switch the charger over to battery A.\u00a0 When that is done I need to disconnect everything, including solar panels. Then re-do all the wiring. Then hook everything up again, starting at the batteries, then finally the solar panels.<\/p>\n

That is an hour or more work in a very uncomfortable cramped space with a very sore kidney. Looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

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It is done. The two batteries are connected together. Of course some cables are too long others barely reaching, but it got done. I even was able to reconfigure my battery monitor to reflect the extra capacity. Of course I haven’t had breakfast yet. I am gonna try that next. It is 1 PM.<\/p>\n

I had the tools in my room so I tightened my monitor so it would hold its position.
\nAfter breakfast I planned to use it.<\/p>\n

BTW none of what I did was fun, it was painfull hard work, that I couldnt stop until it was completly done. I will need to go back in there in the future to replace the too long and the too short cables with better lengths, but not today.<\/p>\n

Today I had over 5 kilowatt hours of storage batteries to keep me in power over the short and often cloudy winter days.<\/p>\n

Now I could concentrate on heat. I have new electric shears to cut up the mountain of carboard in my garage. I won’t be able to turn those into logs this winter. Maybe in the spring.<\/p>\n

Just had a couple of bad chest pains. I have nitro on order, but not here yet. I am not really stressed, physically or emotionally.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t that be inconvient, having a heart attack after doing that battery work. Who would feed the cats. I am not ready to go yet.<\/p>\n

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