Battery bank increase for the solar system was just installs, and it increased our storage capacity by 50%.We went from 400 Amp Hours to 600 amp Hours. The last project I worked on was insulating the batteries for an upcoming major winter cold snap (part 1 and part 2). While doing that, I made sure …
This year, we have been asked if we would speak at the Homestead Expo on April 27 in Talala OK, hosted by Cowboy Country Fellowship and Homegrown Roots Homeschool Co-Op. From their Facebook Event page: We’ll be speaking at 3:00 and talking about Off-Grid living. If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you …
It’s 2024, not sure how that happened, but here it is. So, what’s in store? We sat down and discussed our plans for the new year.And as my bride said, “We have stuff to do.” These are things we have planned, and while some things have higher priority than others, they won’t necessarily be done …
It’s hard to believe 2023 is over. It’s been a crazy year! The year started off in a rush as at the end of 2022, we decided to move. So, we put our house up on the market, and it sold in 36 hours! To top it off, they wanted to close in about 3 …
Solar panel and battery upgrade for the shower shack is what’s on tap for today. We initially installed 4, 25 watt solar panels for the shower shack, and had it hooked to an old lead acid battery.I decided we could go ahead and upgrade from 100 watts to 200 watts giving us twice as much …
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Solar system project is finally complete (I hope). This has been a long journey, especially if you count when we put in our first panels August 24th, 2021 I installed the first 4 of our 200 watt solar panels. And for a while, it went pretty well, with just the weekend trip here and there. …
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What’s been happening on the homestead and tile installation, as well as harvesting the garlic that was planted in November. I went a while without recording anything, so wanted to give a brief rundown of where things stand. Currently 12 of the 16 solar panels are installed. I finally have the wire I need to …
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Time to upgrade our solar from 4 to 16 panels now that the frames are made and the charge controller/inverter have been upgraded. After filling in the trench for the higher gauge wire for the new panels, it was time to start installing the 12 new 200 watt panels. I unboxed and installed the first …
We finally got started on the 12 volt to 48 volt solar system upgrade.The frames are complete, so time for panels and the new 48 volt charge controller/inverter.After taking everything apart, I was paged. so that slowed down the whole process. Once I was able to get back to work, I did manage to build …
With this project done, all the solar panel frames are complete now.The last post, I went in a bit more on my set up, and here, I did the same thing, just 2 feet higher up. I sure wish I had already bought the ladder we were talking about buying. The three new frames allow …
