Tuesday, June 30, 2009 -
It is a warm sunny morning and there are two deer munching on my newly mowed grass in the front yard. Zack is out and per my commands he is just watching them. He moseyed over to the front porch to lay down, without taking his eyes off them. They continued to forage and slowly moved off towards the creek and disappeared. Zack never acted like he was going to chase them and just kept his eyes on them.
The high temperature for yesterday occurred at 4:14 PM, reaching 86.1, and at 6:30 this morning, the lowest temperature was 34.3 degrees. The wind was variable most of the afternoon, with the highest gust being 17 mph. The barometer is indicating rain, while NWS is giving a 20% chance this afternoon and 30% chance this evening. I am glad I mowed yesterday and got it done before any rain. I would welcome rain this week to keep things green and lower the fire danger.
I went out and rewired the batteries into a different configuration, but it doesn’t seem to make much difference, at least as far as dropping the generator out of the charging cycle. It seems to be correct now, but the generator still loads down and kicks out when the charge is at 25.8. It should charge to 26.8 and hold it for two hours, but it isn’t and I have no idea why. The type of battery (AGM in stead of flooded acid) and number, 4-12 volts versus 8-6 volts, are the only thing that changed. I have adjusted the settings on the inverter to compensate for the battery type and size, so it should work fine.
I’ll do some more research to see if I missed something, but I doubt it as I have been over the information four or five times now, and made some adjustments without it making a difference.
I will spend the afternoon cleaning the cabin and then in the early evening, work on the road with the bulldozer.
My intentions were good, but I didn’t get out to work on the road, but did do more research on the batteries, inverter and generator. I thought I had found the problem as when I wired the generator upon my return home, I accidental wired it incorrectly. I have two 30-amp circuit breakers on the generator, so there are five wires, two for each breaker and one for the ground. I had wired one for one breaker and the other for breaker number two. Because only one breaker was on, I thought that maybe it affected the amp output, but after rewiring it and trying it again, it still kicks out the charger before reaching 26.8 volts.
After playing with Zack in the early evening, I fixed him dinner and then showered and by 9 O’clock, I fixed myself a bite to eat. I relaxed for the rest of the evening.