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<\/a>Yes, it’s a halogen heater with two bars – that’s 800 watts – quite happily burning away this afternoon in my attic.<\/p>\nConsidering that it’s the middle of winter, receiving more than 200 amp-hours (that’s over 2.5 kw) of solar energy must be something of a record and with the batteries fully-charged by 10:00 I had to do something with the surplus energy – solar-heated water might be fun but I felt like being adventurous. <\/p>\n
At first I ran the heater at 400 watts but at the peak time (between 13:00 and 14:00) I ran it at 800 watts and the system took it quite happily. <\/p>\n
I was quite impressed of course. <\/p>\n
My next step now is to find a small microwave oven, and to cook my tea in it. You all know the reason behind this story.
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For the benefit of those who don’t, a coule of years ago I was sharing my thoughts about running a microwave oven in here with someone whom I thought was a good friend. And what he did after this was to post the details of this chat into an internet discussion forum of which he was a member so that they could all have a good laugh about it and call me some rude and offensive names.<\/p>\n
Of course, no friendship can remain after that kind of behaviour. And I am determined to prove them wrong.<\/p>\n
This morning the temperature in here was just 9\u00b0C – rather disappointing because last night was quite warm outside, just a mere -14.1\u00b0C. <\/p>\n
It was far too cold to go outside and work this morning of course and so I stayed in, had the halogen heater on and read a book or two. The room slowly warmed up (and I mean slowly) but with halogen heat, it heats a person pretty quickly and I was quite comfortable here with that<\/p>\n