Not the one the FCC ran at 2
o’clock this afternoon.
I just did a very small test of my batteries and
inverter. After moving the batteries to
the top of my generator’s frame so I could get at them easier than leaving them
on the shop floor, I got out my good meter and checked them both. I was surprised to find they both are showing
12.46 volts! They are actually
charged! I has assumed (I know I
shouldn’t) that they most likely wouldn’t be.
Having juice available I hooked up the inverter to one of
the batteries and tried running my air mover fan. It worked as if it were plugged into the
wall.
This actually leaves me with something of a quandary: Having
both batteries charged and in good working order and having the brand new
inverter that we’ve now proven actually works and hopefully having the solar
panels installed this weekend to keep the batteries charged – what should I do
with this power? I bought this equipment
to be able to power an appliance or two, mainly the refrigerator and the
furnace, for a few cycles a day in the event of the grid going down as it did last
week. Living where we do that is a
fairly uncommon thing, particularly for as long a time as it was out this last
time. In the mean time is it a waste to
not use the excess power that will be left over beyond what’s needed to
maintain the charge on the batteries?
Hmmm… You know, I
think this is a good quandary to find myself in. And that’s a nice change of pace!
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