The Solar Eagle Has Landed Screaming the Inverter Blues: Tuesday, June 11th!

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. -John Constable, painter (11 Jun 1776-1837) 

Penticton Utility was by this morning to install a bio-directional meter so now I'm waiting for Argon to drop by to initialize system and we will be living off the Sun! Lady Dar has her volunteer shift at PRH today so she'll fully charge Kona at one of the many free charging stations in parkade there, before coming home. 
News Flash, Dateline Burns Street: Just had a call from Southside and he will be here in the early afternoon, to turn on the juice! Hip Hip Hooray!

Hi Tinhorn Creek Cheapskate Glampers! Thanks for the lovely, lovely postcard of Arches National Park. I simply adore those sort of cards. They remind me of simpler days, or at least what many of us thought were such. Still, gorgeous graphics and I'm sure reality was even more stupendous. Pleased Antelope Canyon was so stunning as well. Fondestos from Lady Dar to you both. Stay well and travel safely. Cheers, Patrizzo!  Southside arrived just after 4:00 pm to start setting up inverter. Took him far longer than anticipated! I had almost finished my sitting/standing shouldares when the front doorbell rang so I let him in as he needed to take a look at the electrical panel in our bedroom.

After that he went to the inverter to begin process of initiating system. I left him to do a few kitchen chores. I didn't want to start on the exercises I do when lying down as I wanted to be available if he needed to talk to me about system. As it turned out, he had to phone his boss, Dave, to walk him through the process. Sun was beating in on him where the charging station had been installed so I took out a large umbrella to shade him and the inverter as bright sunshine made it almost impossible for him to read small menu screen on inverter. With Dave's help he managed to initiate system, although all the steps he had followed earlier were exactly the same as Dave outlines. Some system glitch, I suppose. Anyway, system was up and running by shortly after 6:00 pm. He will return on Thursday with necessary equipment to hook inverter into our WiFi so that we can monitor the system from our devices, whether iPhones or computers. Will try out Tier Two Charger tomorrow as battery was at full charge, (530 km!), Lady Dar having "filled up" at PRH during her volunteer shift.

Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, 1778

At any rate, we are inching our way to having the solares running the way they are supposed to work. And our installation was supposed to be one of the easier ones! Ironically, the installation of the bio-directional electrical meter took only a few minutes. However, having Penticton Utility show up to perform the installation was more of a protracted struggle!

Hello Old Farts, There will be a hike this Thursday. Rick has volunteered to lead it. You will: -meet at 0800 at Home Hardware north parking lot in Penticton (0740 at IGA parking lot in Summerland) -carpool and head for Apex --ramble around in the area of Apex and Beaconsfield Mountains -return to Penticton for refreshment and debriefing Interested? Please let Rick know. Cheers, Jim Congratulations to all those Fabulous Fathers out there! Hip Hip Hooray! Ever Onward for The Brotherhood!!! Cheers, Patrizzio!