Return On Investment Calculations
With trepidation I finally added my equipment into a spreadsheet to determine the return on investment. Some comments are necessary. Because I live in Hawaii (and there is …
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The DC Plane and Helicopter Crash
I won’t write much about the crash but I watched early footage and news reports. When I lived in Virgina I could see the lights from the airport …
Power To The People
I was at a restaurant in Keauhou for a birthday dinner for a friend. I rember this restaurant used to be a Wendy’s fast food place many years …
Making Progress
Over the past couple of days I was able to make some great progress. As I mentioned previously I am using canopy carport thing but without legs. That …
Almost
I am almost done setting up the solar, but it may still be a week or two away. The timing depends upon me perhaps needing more parts. I …
If You Are Following Along At Home
The post title is based on the David Lettermen joke which refered to ‘scoring along at home’ during Stupid Pet Tricks’. I have been mostly running the house …
Paying For Itself
Even though I only have 4 panels running and they are not optimized for angle, they are genering barely enough power. It is a ‘proof of concept’ at …
Success – Sort Of
Tuesday I had to leave my system with two of the four test panels upside down. I corrected that this morning and then went to hook up the …
Its Not “Back To The Future” Rather Its “Forward To The Past”
I was finally able to mount 4 of my solar panels; that’s half of them. I was going to try to connect them to the controller but then …
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Sometimes Life Gets In The Way
A local limo company has had disk space problems with their office computer. I did my best to free up space but I had to work around their …