Windier and cooler this morning with no incumbrances in the way of cars, FreeLoaders or fishermen. I’m wearing my support for dog walking, running and other jobs requiring the use of my right hand. Most of the work is still delegated to the left hand as it will be a while before the right catches up. The Early Walk over, Skinny and I went running but I was reminded of the month of absence and battery transportation from the previous day. Each battery weighs less than 10kg so not heavy in itself but when there are sixteen of them and I’ve sat around quite a bit during the last month, it’s hard work especially when my left is doing most of it.
Despite a very poor performance at running, I managed ten minutes in the water which has cleaned up my right hand considerably. All of the scab has now fallen off leaving just the scar. There is plenty of dead skin to rub off as this has built up due to being covered for so long. It will wear off during the next week accelerated by regular visits to the sea.
My morning was interrupted by Ray from Inter Sport who was on his own at Lewes and unable to login to the tills. Tills are quite useful when it comes to relieving customers of their money so he was keen that I fix the problem. It didn’t take long and it was all working again. The next call was also from Inter Sport as emails to Gmail were not being delivered. I discovered they were being stuck in the system so managed to release them whereupon a barrage of ancient emails from various people at Inter Sport arrived in my inbox.
I wanted to start charging my battery so needed to rig up the charger which forms part of the combined gubbins I purchased from England. I only have a thin cable as the thick one is another item I’m waiting for. They sent only the combined unit and the solar panels. I’ve adapted a cable for charging as it only has to deliver 10A whereas the normal cable should withstand 200A so is considerably thicker as one might expect. Anyway, the battery is on a slow charge to 90% capacity so will take around thirty hours to complete. From there the cells can be balanced, the battery charged to 95% and then discharged back down to somewhere approaching 80% as it’s less stressful that way. Once the cables arrive from England I can think about the solar cells and actually putting the battery to work. Without a fat cable, I can only charge slowly or I risk a meltdown when I put on the kettle or run the vacuum as these are the most demanding loads.
Having got the battery charging, I wandered next door to reclaim the power cable used to light the area when the group was present. I also picked up the string of lights which were in the nearest carob tree to the fence. Janne is bringing some different ones so offered those to me. As a temporary measure, they are hooked over the wire separating the IZO enclosure from the main one. I’ll review their location in due course.
The dogs are patiently awaiting their Evening Amble and the temperature is dropping so a shirt is now required. I notice the mornings are getting lighter later and the evening darker earlier. Something to do with the seasons so I understand. The full moon is approaching so that will make the mornings lighter in a few days time.
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