Good Morning!!!! 80F @ 8:00AM. Sunny. Hot. High 106F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
I like your new sig line, Ted. Only wish I could. Last night I woke up at about 1AM to a dark, stuffy room, and realized that the power was off! Grabbed a flashlight out of the headboard and went out into the garage, dark as a tomb on the solar power system control panel. I bypassed the solar power system to get the house powered back up, then noticed that somehow the main breaker on the battery had popped. No battery, no power, even though the grid was still connected to the system. Couldn't fall back to sleep, so wrote up my findings and sent them off to the contractor for his opinion. Sure doesn't inspire confidence, but at least I was able to get things online again. Hope you get some rain soon. There is none in the 10-day forecast here, but then I would be surprised if there were. We should be dry through September, and maybe even October the way things have been going the past few years.
I found
this story on the big dust cloud interesting. It seems Florida and the Caribbean islands would be much the worse for wear without Africa's dust.
Another 8 cases of CV19 discovered in the county yesterday, bringing the total to 111. Still only one death. Part of that is through increased testing, something like 150 tests per day. At least they're quarantining the sick ones instead of having them run around loose and infecting more people.
Shovels make good snake medicine too, Buppies. Hope you get that one before it gets you!
Beautiful lily, Ron. Looks like an escapee from a garden! I think my mom's noodle recipe came from her mother, not gonna find that in a book. Also sure she used eggs and maybe even lard or Crisco, not something I'd use these days. Yet another "they don't make 'em like they used to" things.
Is your starter working better now, Don? Will they start up a water volleyball league once CV19 restrictions ease? Hope you can get to the root of that leak. I had a saw once that had a leak in the chain oil tank. Left a mess wherever I parked it.:muttering:
Hope your A/C troubles are an easy, and inexpensive, fix, Mike. Not the time of year to be going without A/C!
Glad your financial picture is settling out, Drew. Try not to be so anxious during the last days before closing, but it's hard not to worry even though there's little to be done if things go sideways. In Ohio, where I had to liquidate the family estate, they can get ALL of their deposit money back, seemingly no matter what the excuse. The staff at your facility sound very nice. You are lucky to have each other.:thumbsup: Clever wreath, Drew. Did she win first prize?
Those spaghetti westerns are still favorites, Eric. They're what made Clint Eastwood a star!
The inspector wouldn't sign off on the building permit without the placards, Bruce, so they'll have to come out for another inspection.:confused2: And PG&E won't let me hook the system up to the grid without doing their own inspection. It already is, but they punish you by charging you if you export any of your solar power onto the grid. The contractor explained that for power to go into the grid, the electricity going out has to be boosted to a slightly higher voltage than the electricity coming in from the grid. Makes sense, since voltage is the electrical equivalent of pressure. But problems crop up if more than one power exporter are on the same line. Once the first guy bumps his voltage up, the second guy has to bump his up more for his power to go out. Then the first guy has to bump his up again, and you get a runaway situation. :confused2:
I'm not sure there are any shunts monitoring current anywhere in this system, David. It seems like they're depending on the battery management system built into the battery bank to just take care of itself. After watching the battery voltage readings for a while now, I realize that they don't correlate very well to the data I posted yesterday, either. I suppose once I get the Tri Metric thingy, I can do my own battery characterization. But don't you have to do that anyway as the battery ages and looses capacity? Time for another round of Q&A with the contractor; it seems the more I learn the more I have to learn...
That fancy scrubber of yours does a real nice job on the concrete, Rick. What sort of brush is under that housing, and how long does it last?
Went up into the attic to see if I could find a start capacitor in the furnace blower motor yesterday, but didn't have any luck. I wonder if there is even a capacitor up there, as the only electricity going into the furnace housing is via a 120 VAC cord that plugs into a standard wall outlet that's been nailed to a 2x4. It's a York furnace, which google told me is now part of Johnson Controls, but due to CV19 they're not answering their phones these days. I left a message, and this morning shortly after 7, a real nice lady called to try to help me. I did find the model number inside one of the furnace doors, so I gave her that and in a few minutes she emailed me operator's and installation manuals. Haven't looked at them yet, but fingers are crossed. I had more luck out at the compressor, and got more make/model info and a GE part number off of that big fat capacitor. But I hit the jackpot when I found a place in town that had a replacement in stock that was on Carrier's list of blessed vendors, for less than I could find one for on the internet. I'll swing by there this afternoon while I'm in town chasing groceries.
It's already too hot for anything strenuous outside, so after breakfast I think I'll put the sprayer on the Kubota buggy and ride around squirting weeds.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!:dance1:
still got some between the potatoes. 
