Good Morning!!!! 57F @ 5:15AM. Plenty of sunshine. High 67F. Winds light and variable.
NWS is calling for a Red Flag Warning starting tomorrow morning for about 24 hours, which coincides with the PG&E PSPS warning, which is now a watch, which pretty much guarantees the electric will be off when I wake up tomorrow morning. A recent headline proclaimed the PG&E CEO "has it figured out" when it comes to the PSPSs, in that they are more targeted and involve fewer ratepayers. Even so, this next one will leave 625,000 folks in the dark.
From what I can see in your photos, Eric, your welds look like they'll do the job nicely. Not sure if that lifting gizmo is just the square plate, or that whole structure, though.
Speaking of welding, did you ever get the bike frame squared away Mostly? If so, how's it ride now?
Hope your install goes smoothly tomorrow, David! Looking forward to some photos...
The restore of the laptop drive finally finished yesterday morning, and looking at the dates on my emails, looks like about five weeks of information went poof. So far, nothing of much importance seems to be missing, so I'll keep my fingers crossed it stays that way.
Solar guy showed up an hour late, but at least he texted me before hand to let me know. Then he showed up without his amp meter, so no power measurements were made.:muttering: I showed him my dad's old Amprobe, which neither of us could get to work, but I later read the instructions and it has to be placed around a single conductor, and we'd had it around a pair. So this morning I'll pop the covers off a couple of circuit breaker panels, and see if I can get some measurements without electrocuting myself. My meter doesn't do surge, though, not sure what to do about that. But the solar guy did have some good ideas about routing the leads to the solar panels and generator, and promised to provide line and conduit sizes as soon as I send him the lengths. Looks like we can site the inverters, etc. in the garage instead of the pump house, so they'll be cooler and easier to get to. The down side is I have to open up the trench that runs between the house and the pump house so we can run another lead that will power the big shop tools from grid electricity. He's already provided specs for the inverters and solar panels, and the new panels are smaller and lighter than the ones the rack was designed for, so we'll be able to reuse the engineering analysis I've already paid for. And he's OK with me or my contractors doing the rack installation and trenching, so that'll take a big chunk out of the labor costs and speed things up as well.
I almost got the engine deck covered with sound deadening material in the van yesterday, too, just a few more pieces to go.
The gravel hauler I talked to last week never came through with a quote, so I'll try the one I used five years ago and see how much more he's charging now in this day and age of $4.50/gallon #2 Diesel.
