El Matador Beach Towers

Yesterday was a busy day.

 

I replaced the batteries in my solar power system, four big lead-acid deep cycle units. The swap went perfectly, my design for the system included three circuit breakers, one to isolate the solar panels, the other the battery.

 

Now I have to get the old batteries off the hill in my back yard and into the garage. The company I bough the new units from delivered them to my house (great) and will pick up the old units (better). What a deal.

 

After I was done connecting the batteries (24 volts four in series) I threw the breakers to connect to the panels and watched the voltage rise up. Then I connected the batteries up to the inverter and all was good. I hope to be good with these new batteries for a decade or so.

 

After the batteries it was off to yoga, a substitute teacher who was harder than usual.

 

Then back home the clouds looked interesting so I went to the beach. The sunset never took off and those darn clouds that looked so thick evaporated in the 45 minute drive to the beach. But not every sunset has to be a world beater and it had a quiet beauty.

 

I'm getting better at getting sand out from my tripod legs....

 

Cheers.

Done