UPDATE:
Done:
Things to do:
Another weekend out at the ranch. 30 mph winds and snow Saturday with a Sunday morning low of 8°F. This little video was taken by the blink cam around 6:30pm Sat:
photos.app.goo.gl
Did the new main jet in the Predator help the output frequency?
Not according to the above, BUT while the Hz looks a little worse, the power output was a little higher and much more consistent, so perhaps some good was done?
WTF?! battery moment:
The furnace ran almost all night long. A heated throw and my CPAP weren't helping either. A bit over 200W most of the night. Yep... 29.8% SoC. I have this set pretty conservatively in terms of battery capacity - way less than the 300Ah rated. Low voltage was 47.4 under a 6A load. Probably not as low as 30%, but definitely under 50%. NOT pretty. Saturday was cloudy, and we arrived about an hour later than usual, so we had less sun to work with. The genny run didn't do a ton, but I'm glad I did it!
3kW array is charge throttled due to limited capacity - can only accept 30A charging, so I generally can't charge with more than 1700W. I played a game of steal from the sun by watching the charge current and turning stuff on - water heater, 500W space heaters, etc. Managed to see close to 2700W steady production near peak solar - that's about 90% of rated with panels tilted at year round optimal and sun near winter-worst. Yes, cold helped, but dang... I'm tickled.
The big dips are when things cycled off and production dropped to the charge current.
Wife enjoyed her new one-handed chainsaw. I saw it as a silly thing, but she was carnage incarnate to the unsuspecting junipers. We have a few we want to clear, and we have some that are crowding out the Pinon Pines - like growing out of them - those parasites must go!
EDIT: BEFORE
AFTER:
This wasn't even 5 minutes.
Re-winterized until our next visit - maybe after Christmas? Little productivity. Lotsa Netflix. Still a great weekend away from the rest of the unwashed masses.
Done:
- Un-winterized and fully re-winterized the 5th wheel.
- Consumed about 15# of propane in about 24 hours
- Woke up to 8°F
- WTF battery DoD moment
- Installed a high altitude jet kit for the Predator in hopes of smoothing out its output frequency.
Things to do:
- Setup remote control of electric water heater - can't find an inline unit that can handle the amps, so the plan is to cut the wires coming out of the breaker box, install male/female plugs on the ends and insert a 15A wifi plug (same I use on fridge) and have it come on every day around noon for a couple hours.
- Same as last time.
Another weekend out at the ranch. 30 mph winds and snow Saturday with a Sunday morning low of 8°F. This little video was taken by the blink cam around 6:30pm Sat:
New video by S Keith
photos.app.goo.gl
Did the new main jet in the Predator help the output frequency?
Not according to the above, BUT while the Hz looks a little worse, the power output was a little higher and much more consistent, so perhaps some good was done?
WTF?! battery moment:
The furnace ran almost all night long. A heated throw and my CPAP weren't helping either. A bit over 200W most of the night. Yep... 29.8% SoC. I have this set pretty conservatively in terms of battery capacity - way less than the 300Ah rated. Low voltage was 47.4 under a 6A load. Probably not as low as 30%, but definitely under 50%. NOT pretty. Saturday was cloudy, and we arrived about an hour later than usual, so we had less sun to work with. The genny run didn't do a ton, but I'm glad I did it!
3kW array is charge throttled due to limited capacity - can only accept 30A charging, so I generally can't charge with more than 1700W. I played a game of steal from the sun by watching the charge current and turning stuff on - water heater, 500W space heaters, etc. Managed to see close to 2700W steady production near peak solar - that's about 90% of rated with panels tilted at year round optimal and sun near winter-worst. Yes, cold helped, but dang... I'm tickled.
The big dips are when things cycled off and production dropped to the charge current.
Wife enjoyed her new one-handed chainsaw. I saw it as a silly thing, but she was carnage incarnate to the unsuspecting junipers. We have a few we want to clear, and we have some that are crowding out the Pinon Pines - like growing out of them - those parasites must go!
EDIT: BEFORE
AFTER:
This wasn't even 5 minutes.
Re-winterized until our next visit - maybe after Christmas? Little productivity. Lotsa Netflix. Still a great weekend away from the rest of the unwashed masses.
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