on sunday:
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two solar panels were pulling in a happy and alarming 135 watts, the batteries loaded upto 14.25 volts and my load dump switch came on and the dump sytem was instantly painful hot, but not burning hot to the touch, (that yellow light was a-flicker-in)
all day LONG... ghurd's load control switch works GREAT....
You guys should all buy one or two from him!
(I the wind turbine only cut in breifly ... like 2 seconds...)
I want to use that electricity for more than running a dump...
I still have that 35 feet of that 14awg wire... It is long enough to reach my Chicken coop too...
I know my chickens would LOVE to have a few fans running on them in the summer and perhaps some small heaters in the winter. I would also like to be able to light up the chicken coop or the coop's side shed at night from time to time.
So here are my NEW wireing idea plans...
The top drawing is using the inverter I already own inside my sealed shed with a outlet switch in the shed.
The bottom drawing shows a new 2nd inverter inside the shed as which also is the on/off switch. The difference is that the top one requires that I unlock my shed to switch on the inverter everytime I want to run the coop. The bottom all I gotta do is switch the power on on in the scoop shed.
and now, my questions... I can not decide which one to do...
The coop side shed has only chicken wire as one of it's walls and no door, would that pose a moisture problem for a new 1600 watt cobra inverter if I added one in the coop shed? (why the 1600 watt cobra inverter: I might as well be able to run power tools at the coop as well) The PVC houses the wire and is buried. if i use the top plans can i simply leave the inverter on forever inside the locked power shed?
Site informitive photos:Two "young bird" and/or "Bad bird" holding pens inside the coop shed.
(new product of my wife's recent honey do list)
you can see the chicken wire wall that seperates the side shed from the chicken run.
The out side of the finished side shed:
For fun, here is a link to a video tour of my coop before the new chicken holding pens where added into the coop's side shed...
http://www.fieldlines.com/index.php/topic,146857.0.html.
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