2 March 2017
February was a difficult month electrically. Since the four batteries that were fried by a faulty or lightning-struck regulator were taken out of the system last year, we have been staggering along on the remaining set of four - now six years old. Dave was nursing them carefully, and swapping them around to try to maximise their capacities, but even so, we were running the generator to charge them up to twice a day, and even then, we might wake in the morning with no power in the system.
So, we scrabbled around for some money, and bought four new Trojan T105RE - the 'RE' stands for Renewable Energy, and they've been specially designed for solar systems. The blurb says they'll last 10-12 years. We were hoping to hold out for a lithium ion system, but in the end we couldn't wait and had to go with these, at 900 euros for four, from a Greek company that delivered to Lefkas town. (BatteryPark.gr)
February was a difficult month electrically. Since the four batteries that were fried by a faulty or lightning-struck regulator were taken out of the system last year, we have been staggering along on the remaining set of four - now six years old. Dave was nursing them carefully, and swapping them around to try to maximise their capacities, but even so, we were running the generator to charge them up to twice a day, and even then, we might wake in the morning with no power in the system.
So, we scrabbled around for some money, and bought four new Trojan T105RE - the 'RE' stands for Renewable Energy, and they've been specially designed for solar systems. The blurb says they'll last 10-12 years. We were hoping to hold out for a lithium ion system, but in the end we couldn't wait and had to go with these, at 900 euros for four, from a Greek company that delivered to Lefkas town. (BatteryPark.gr)
The final configuration of the old sets, evicted for recycling
The new set, installed and buzzing!
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