May 29th in Underwood

May 29th

We have been running on solar to charge the battery bank for over almost 3 months and it has been working very well.

But now that we are dry camping it is putting the batteries under an extra load as they must pickup all the ac electric requirements as well by running the inverter.

Under perfect working conditions this would have still worked out quite well ......"but"...... as it has been solid overcast and raining for the last three or four days we are working deeper into the battery banks capacity than we have in the past.

We plan on shutting down the inverter tonight saying by-by to all ac till later tomorrow when I hope the weather changes and we get some solid sun again. As we converted all lighting to LED we can still have the 12 volt system to fall bake on.

If not we will have to tie into the system using the 3000 watt generator and turning on the converter to both supply ac electricity and charge the battery bank.

It is Always and Adventure!

P/S to the post above. Ran the 3000 watt Generator for just over 3 hours lighting up the 5er's ac and charging the batteries and we are back to full power. Yeah!

Had a little problem getting the Generator to run. From lack of use the needle and seat had stuck in the carb. But by draining a little fuel out the bowl the float dropped and fuel began to flow again allowing me to start the engine.

Again it is Always and Adventure!