Wednesday, January 15, 2014

It was like spring yesterday morning (Jan 14). I heard a few song birds singing and a couple of Canadian geese flew by honking, going to the pond at the near by horse farm. Of course as late afternoon arrived it began to get a cooler brisk in the air and became much chillier, no song birds and all I heard was crows again.  supposed to rain and possible snow today and tonight.  Oh how I long for spring.... I have had enough of cold weather for this winter.


  •  lets talk about our electricity in our yurt.  
As I had said earlier in my blog we are trying to explore the "off grid" experience as well.  What better way to do this but in a "yurt" right?  lol  We have got a couple of small solar panels outside hooked up to a boat battery.  as my picture shows below: 



As you can see the battery was running the TV, DVD player (watching my favorite show MASH) and charging my laptop, along with the internet router.  This ran for about 7 hrs before the battery went almost dead and we disconnected it.  Of course, it took about 10 to 12 hours to charge back up on the solar panels the next day. 

Now of course we need more electricity than what these 3 panels and one battery can supply.  So meanwhile we have our yurt plugged into an outside plug (like a camp post in a camp ground) that stretches to the house near by.  Steve has got a regular breaker box inside the yurt that has several 110 breakers in it with outlets and switches distributed though out the yurt for the microwave, lights, refrigerator coffee maker and computer and other mis. items to plug into as well.  

We need to hook up about twice the solar panels again and add maybe 1 to 2 more batteries to this setup and then see what it does for us.  Alas, until we get extra money available this will have to wait. perhaps this spring.  (boat batteries are a $100 ea and solar panels are not cheap.)

Stay tuned in for more updates soon.  




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