Saturday, November 09, 2013

Updating the solar (power) system...

I'm not going to make a whole lot of comments in this post, mainly because I don't know what I'm talking about!!  I do know that Mike has done a lot of research and has some good resources (including my brother-in-law!) which allows him to install and/or upgrade a solar power system.  New parts were ordered and arrived on a shipping container; they finally made it to the village, and Mike worked hard to get things swapped with minimal down-time for our electricity.  He also swapped out a very decayed wood ceiling panel in the process :).
The "old" equipment

The ceiling panel removed
in order to get access to the wiring.










The new ceiling panel got installed
(after a lot of maneuvering!)












The "new stuff"













The batteries were swapped out later.  Here are the old ones (no picture of the new ones right now).







 And we're back up and running.  Others in the village appreciate it as well, as we've become a center for charging cell phones :).













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