Rain and Sun Station

It's been raining today and yesterday, with no sign of stopping. The rain has been a double edged sword.  We're enjoying the cooler temperatures and catching some rain in our tank.  But a lightning strike wiped out most of our friend and neighbor's power system.

We've gotten over a half of an inch so far, which translates to potentially  70 gallons or so from our one little roof. When we have all our roofs on the property guttered, that half an inch of rain will mean some 425 gallons of water to our storage tanks.

There's been no sun for a couple days, but it is easier to be thrifty with power when you don't need every fan on to fight the heat.

The new SunStation uses the same 85W poly panels as our household PV array.

We have just started building another SunStation for an off-gridder way out in the desert past the ghost town. This new one will be smaller than the first, with just over 400 rated watts of PV. We're using the same kind of panels that we use in our own power system, so we can definitely vouch for the durability.