Life goes on – 10 April 2021
Life goes on – 10 April 2021
Solar Panel Adjustment Time again – 20th August 2018
It’s that time again, and this time we can adjust all our newly installed adjustable solar racks.
It has taken a while but we are very pleased with them and the increase in efficiency is already paying off.
Increasing our Water Storage – 25th August 2017
Water has always been an issue here.
Partly due to the steepness of our property(No flat land for tanks), and partly due to the intermittent nature of rain on the western side of the coastal ranges.
Fault Finding – AGM Solar Batteries – 30th July 2017
Lately the stored power in our Solar Batteries has not been performing well.
The power stored for overnight use had not been good since we got here, but lately had become an issue as we would come very close to running out of power overnight.
1st year anniversary – 29th September 2016
We’ve been here one year! As we look back at the first months of our first year, we realise that we only noticed the big stuff, the stuff that needed doing. One year later we are amazed at how much we missed of the spring that was blooming around us. In comparison,...
Building a Grey Water Filter Pond – 28th July 2016
The house here at Arborlon has a somewhat primitive grey water system. Water from the bathroom sink, kitchen sink, and shower drains to a grey water reservoir just outside the house in our back yard. it is a small-ish concrete tank set in the ground. It has a submersible dirty water pump that runs intermittently, and the outlet is just a grey water pipe extended down the hill below the house.
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