Showing posts with label solar power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar power. Show all posts

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Solar...

It is dry. Not as dry as last summer but dry all the same.

I had my baby girl the end of June so now I'm in the healing stages. Though I'm pretty healed up already, I always push myself a little too hard.

Now onto solar... we bit the bullet and bought a 1 kW solar panel. We had to buy a solar charge controller as well. No home panel manufacturing this time, no time available for it. I've too many other building projects pending. But we spent a day hacking it together so it could be used while getting it's permanent location ready. So for the first time in nearly 4 years I have continuous power and refrigeration. The refrigerator is a big deal due to our dairy production and is what accelerated the purchase after the 3 generator deaths in a 3 month period.

Finally, my boys and I had a building project... making a solar oven. We used a styrofoam cooler as our box and lined it with aluminum foil. It works to heat water and can reheat food but not super good for actual cooking. It needs a little help yet.