Yes, and for many reasons too. Probably the most important was that it didn’t rain today and we had bright blue skies, with just a few clouds passing by – the first time since I can’t remember when.
It didn’t take long for the batteries to be fully-charged, and then the excess solar charge was diverted into the dump load.
And with the data panel that I installed on the overcharge controller, I could see how it was doing.
28 amps – or 382 watts – currently going into the home-made 12 volt immersion heater. Already, 23.4 amp-hours have gone in and by the time that I took the statistics before going to bed, we’d have a grand total of 122.2 surplus amp-hours – over 1.5KwH.
By the time I was starting to slow down – at 18:00 – the water in the dump load was up to 58°C and still rising. And so cue a load of washing. That’s all hanging out on the line now.
I even changed the bed linen, having to peel the pillow cases off the pillows and the quilt cover off the quilt.
It won’t only be clean bedding tonight – it will be a clean me too, for the temperature in the solar shower reached 33°C and a couple of litres out of the 12-volt immersion heater pushed that up to a respectable temperature and so I had a nice warm shower – and how I enjoyed that!
Pure bliss!
That’s made me feel like a new man – although where I might find one around here is anyone’s guess.
But that’s not all.
The benefits of going to bed early saw me up and about and breakfasting at 07:40 and that was really astonishing. That meant that I had a good 4 hours on the website and I was still all done by midday.
So I mixed a load of mortar and made a start on rebuilding the stone wall on the lean-to. That kept me busy for a few hours.
Rob came round to borrow my 100mm hole-cutter so we had a chat for 15 minutes, and then I had another task to attend to.
Hardly any water seems to be entering the water butts so I also stripped down the home-made water filters. And as I suspected, bunged up to the eyeballs, they were. and cleaned out the water filters. No wonder there wasn’t much water reaching the water butts.
Anyway, they are all ready for the next torrential rainstorm.
And me? I’m ready to snuggle up into my nice clean bed. I’ve been looking forward to this for ages
When are you going to ring your favourite solar installing company and ask to sell them the power :p