{"id":182,"date":"2012-07-16T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=182"},"modified":"2017-07-05T15:39:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:39:26","slug":"bimmin-eck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Monday 16th July 2012 – BLIMMIN’ ‘ECK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long for the batteries to be fully-charged, and then the excess solar charge was diverted into the dump load.<\/p>\n

\"home<\/a>And with the data panel that I installed on the overcharge controller, I could see how it was doing.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

By the time I was starting to slow down – at 18:00 – the water in the dump load was up to 58\u00b0C and still rising. And so cue a load of washing. That’s all hanging out on the line now. <\/p>\n

I even changed the bed linen, having to peel the pillow cases off the pillows and the quilt cover off the quilt.
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It won’t only be clean bedding tonight – it will be a clean me too, for the temperature in the solar shower reached 33\u00b0C 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! <\/p>\n

Pure bliss! <\/p>\n

That’s made me feel like a new man – although where I might find one around here is anyone’s guess.<\/p>\n

But that’s not all. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Anyway, they are all ready for the next torrential rainstorm.<\/p>\n

And me? I’m ready to snuggle up into my nice clean bed. I’ve been looking forward to this for ages<\/p>\n

-8<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,477],"tags":[1786,2649,447,7564,7309,5298,2560,5565,2012,7474,206,423,5366,300,438,1147,462,782,458,502,2274,1983],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-rob_julie","tag-12-volt-immersion-heater","tag-change-bedding","tag-charge-controller","tag-clean-bedding","tag-collapsed-lean-to","tag-dump-load","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-heated-shower","tag-holesaw","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-rainwater-filter","tag-rainwater-harvesting","tag-rob_julie-2","tag-shower","tag-stone-wall","tag-tabletop-washing-machine","tag-washing","tag-water-butt","tag-xantrex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8780,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/8780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}