Ehrenberg, AZ (I-10 W AZ Rest Area Mile Marker 4)
We're on the road again (yeah!) and have completed our first stop: getting solar panels installed. We had a great visit with Andy and Linda Clarkson at their place in Yuma on Monday, and had the panels installed over the last two days. They told me it would be about 5-6 hours, so I planned for a whole day. Ha! It was a little over a day-and-a-half all told, since Monday's appointment was still there when I arrived on Tuesday AM. In any event, it was all done, everything seems to work, and we're back on the road. We originally planned to stop in Laughlin tonight but it was too far (or we left too late, you get the idea). We then thought of staying in Quartzsite, but they've already rolled up the sidewalks for the summer there - there wasn't anyone visible in the short term (aka "free") BLM stay areas, and we didn't want to stay by ourselves, so we decided to push on to Ehrenberg (the last stop in AZ before crossing the Colorado into California), pulling into the last I-10 Rest Area. Tomorrow, we'll make up some of the lost time/lost ground, but we're not going to push it too hard.
I've got a lot more to update, and several more pictures to post, but I'm ready to hit the hay so that will have to wait. I realized tonight that the first thing we forgot to pack was the cord for Geri's Nikon S550 pocket camera, but fortunately our PCs have SD card slots so we'll be OK.
Anyway, here are before and after pictures (click to enlarge) of the roof solar setup.
Before (1 panel, 100 watts):
After (5 panels, 620 watts total):
1 comment:
What ? no panels on the sliders ?
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