Finished up charging our batteries with the solar panels. Started out slow as we had a good overcast sky and we were readin’ only 5 amps on our TriMetric meter. By 11 am we were pumpin’ out 15.8 amps even though there was a cold front approachin’ and the sky was starting to get cloudy but with holes. Those holes are where the electricity is hidden, just got to get it out of ‘em. By 12:30 our meter was readin’ an astonishing 16.3 amps, that’s almost two and a half amps over the designed maximum.
Yipee!!
While all them good electrons were were gatherin’ in the batteries I changed the door holder on the trailer. Linda had broken the plastic one before we left this summer and I glued it back together. We lucked out and it held all the time we were gone, then broke again the other day. So I ordered a stainless steel one like we have on the Lance camper (lets see her break this one).
The old door holder had a rubber bumper to keep the door from hitting the side of the coach and I thought I’d remount it. Well it was dirty, filthy and had red mold growin’ under the surface of the plastic. So I got out the Goof Off and went to cleanin’ it.
This is what it looked like when I started.
Here it is all cleaned up.
I can’t say enough about this product, it’s amazing.
When the batteries were fully charged and we still had some good sun on and off, I decided to try somethin’ else. I setup our new ice maker and turned it on powered by the inverter. It kept makin’ ice fer’ two and a half hours and by then the sun was pretty weak. But runnin’ while the sun was still chargin’ us we were still at 100% when I shut it off and had lots of ice. That means we can make ice during the day with no effect on our power level as long as there is sun.
Well I got to go fer’ now we’re packin’ to head out fer’ a week o’ boondockin’. I’ll let ya’ know where we wind up after we make it there. Hope to see ya’ down the road as we’re;
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