Monday, June 29, 2009 -
Although my barometer is indicating rain with a falling pressure, it is 76.8 degrees in the sunshine. There are only a few small wispy clouds in the sky and the sun is shining brightly. Last night, or I should say this mornings, low temperature was 31.6 at 5 AM, and the high yesterday was 84.3 at 4:44 PM. The wind reached a maximum of 25 mph at around 3 PM, and didn’t quit blowing all day long. The air is still, as of 10 this morning, but if a storm is moving in it will get windy again.
I am still having trouble finding the correct settings for the inverter to correctly charge the new batteries. The AGM type batteries require different voltage and amperage inputs so they don’t charge too fast and become over heated. Even though I have been lowering those settings, the generator bogs down and the inverter registers that the speed is too low, so kicks it out of the equation. The float level on these batteries should be 26.8 volts, but I can’t charge them beyond 24.6, which means that they are undercharged and only last a couple of days before having to recharge them again.
I have done research and found the charging information for these batteries at the manufactures web site, so I will study them and see if there is something more I can do to achieve the proper settings.
I changed into my grubby work clothes and went out to mow the front 40. It took about an hour and half to mow all of it, which includes stopping to move objects that were in the way, and fill the gas tank twice. Surprising to me that what little energy all of that took, it tired me out. I played with Zack and then quit for the day. A shower helped rejuvenate me, and I played one last time with Zack before feeding him.
I crashed in my recliner with a drink and read the information about the batteries and inverter one more time. It was 10 PM before I fixed and ate my dinner, but it doesn’t get dark until almost 10 PM, so it is hard to keep track of time. I watched a movie on television and went to bed at midnight.