It never ends

[wpowokal]

It just keeps happening, there always seems to be some component that "can be" upgraded, I haven't been looking very hard honest.

After my inverter saga, diary here..

http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2008/5/11/14149/3310

I had a few too many cables loose, (no not screws) not to mention a spare inverter, so both inverters are now correctly wired in with a two pole change over switch and two pole isolation circuit breaker.

Then there was the solar panels that had tempory wiring after mounting them on a tracking frame, so a day or so later each panel is wired back to a fuse in the junction box and a new 16mm Sq cable back to the control centre.

This is how they were.

Now.

Since the duel rotor has been up (2 years) the power has come in through some salvage 16mm sq aerial, laying on the ground. And to make allowance for the conversion I have run a new cable out to a junction box adjacent to the conversion tower, its now on that post at the end of the shadow..

And the conversion waiting to fly again, this unit will be specifically for the summer overnight winds, while it will get wind from other direction it's sited for those winds.

No that is not the blades for it, they have yet to be carved.

I have tidied up the shunt cabeling into one box.

Then there are the top batteries waiting to be relocated to ground level, the other solar panels to rewire, and the small duel rotor I have been working on for at least 12 months it never ends.

Now nothing to do with Re but, these two were the last of the first group of winter backpackers to leave early this month. The two Irish guys had already gone, little could be said about them, surfice to say anybody who need a balaclava as a beanie.

The bartteries

allan down under

[BruceDownunder]

Hi Al,,nice to see you are getting time to tidy things up ..I know the feeling..

Are they the 2 bag girls or 4 pot beauties ?

be carefull,,,

Bruce

[wpowokal]

Hi Bruce, now you see what you missed out on when you were unable to make it down. Both easy on the eye, not that I would notice i'm too much of a gentleman, and very polite.

allan

[JW]

That is nice.

 Your system has earned you some, R+R, Party on...

Cheers

JW

[wpowokal]

Ok time to fess up those batteries are not my main bank just some entrusted to me to give em a work out.

Here you can see those cases i have had to make repairs to, to the left the orange cables are some of the new upgraded cables for the lower banks to make allowance for when I move the top banks to ground level. Each battery is 65Kg and getting to the point of being more than I can lower to ground level. If you look closley you may be able to see the electrolite level is a little OTP ie the tides out on the right side, the stands are slowly crumpeling.

In the distance is the positive bus bar in grey square conduit and under it the negative bus bar. The fuses are for each bank and are 65A HRC fuses, I get away with such small fuses because I never have less than 3 banks in service.

allan down under

[ruddycrazy]

Eh Allan,

         I'm sure you would of seen those hydraulic lift tables, one of them would be perfect to lower the batteries, simply raise the table-slide the battery on -lower it to its new home-slide it home...

         I can get those tables for cost price and I can get it shipped over cheap so if you want one just get ya butt into irc and let me know.

Cheers Bryan1

[tecker]

Why that's Beverage ang Frigempty

[oztules]

You have enough storage there to run a small country.

.......oztules

[wpowokal]

Tules for twenty bucks how could I refuse!

allan down under