Category: Solar
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Weekend Trip to Sucia Island
We had a short trip to Sucia Island. Just 8.5 miles from home, but it feels like being completely away on vacation. Short on…
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Solar Panels Back On For The Season
Today with some help from George, we reinstalled 6 of our 8 solar panels for the season. We remove them each winter to keep…
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Solar Panels Installed For The Season
Each fall we take off the solar panels for the winter and stormy season. Today we reinstalled the solar panels on the roof of…
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Keeping the House Batteries Charged with Solar
For the winter, we took off a number of the solar panels that would have been completely destroyed in wind storms, but we did…
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2020 – A Good Year For Boating
Many aspects of 2020 were very unprecedented, and there were some big challenges for the world, and for us personally as well, but overall…
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Solar Panels Retired For The Season
With gale force winds on the forecast for tomorrow, and more stormy weather after that today was the day to bring in the solar…
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Solar… Where did the sun go?
It has been a few days since I have seen the sun due to all the forest fire smoke on the west coast. Not…
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Solar Panel Update
It has been 4 months since we first installed the solar panels on the boat. We have 6 of the 8 panels installed, each…
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Extending the House Batteries
When we originally replaced the house batteries we put in 8 “Golf Cart 6v” batteries, that are primarily charged by our solar panels. Today…
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New House Battery Bank
After our shakedown cruise, we discovered that even with the 4 x 8d deep cycle and AGM batteries they would barely hold a charge…