Batteries
The picture above is supposed to be of our new battery, the heart of our off-grid system. Its wonbok though. Because I still have not managed to get the battery. Of all the challenges of completing this project so far battery acquisition is the most difficult. Not just any battery, the right one. Windstorms, all of our new screen houses blowing over, a new pig invasion, all not as much of a headache. There is light, though, at the end of the tunnel. A nice light powered by a lithium cell, I can just tell. If you are in Hawaiʻi check out Battery Bill's . Bill supplies not only batteries but charge controllers, all kinds of equipment for off grid solar. You want the Mapunapuna store on Ahua St. Batteries, as I said above, are the heart of a stand alone energy system whether solar or wind, which is also solar... Anyway, it's the Amp hours (AH) available at any given time that powers tools, light, pumps, not how many solar panels there are out there in your array. Th...