Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Solar



We rented a car for a day to buy the solar panels and do some shopping. Got almost everything done in 22 hours then back to enterprise. We were concerned about overheating so we arranged for a mechanic to do some work on the cooling system too. I figured 4 maybe 5 days to complete the install and a few more things. We finished almost everything in 10 days, just in time for severe storms to come through, so we stayed 2 more days.

But now we have 240 watts of solar. We were running our generator almost 3 hours every day when we sat at anchor. This should cut that back to 1 hour every few days! Yea!

Posted by Ed aboard S/V Freedom

2 comments:

  1. Ed good to here that you are having a good time sounds like your tack problem could be a bad groud thats usualy what it is. enjoy the sun and fair winds to the islands

    Gordie Connelly

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  2. @Gordie Connelly:
    Thanks for checking in Gordie, good to hear from you. Hope you are doing well.
    I did do a lot of digging for bad grounds, nothing so far.

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