In Cheyenne, Wyoming at Jolly Rogers RV, Pete is handing up Mike one of my Go Power Solar panels. Which means ...
The two 110 Watt panels are now installed on the roof of the rv! Wow! That is a dream come true. Mike wired the solar panels into the transfer switch and controller today. Tomorrow he will install the control panel and monitor panel inside the RV. He said with the four 6 volt golf cart batteries I can run everything in the RV except the AC for two days before recharging would be necessary. He said most days those two big solar panels will recharge the batteries so there should be little need to ever run Mr. Watts, our little 1000 watt generator, to recharge. I have to check my batteries for water every month. How hard can that be? Only fair to give them some water once in awhile in exchange for the wonderful electrical power they will supply us with. How does Mike know these things? He has been wiring RV's in everything electric for 22 years here at Jolly Rogers RV in Cheyenne, WY. Before that he wired houses and buildings. Roger, Roseanne, Jose, Linda, Pete and Mike here at Jolly Rogers RV could not have been kinder or more helpful with informed advice and getting the job done as quickly as possible (would have been done a lot sooner except I hemmed and hawed as to whether to buy the Big Foot Levelers so as a result they were shipped last week which held up the whole shebang).
The weather here has been cold, cloudy and blustery here today but the sun did shine long enough for Mike to get the solar panels onto the roof. Thank the Lord for small mercies.
However, Pete told me to pull my slides in if it starts to snow as we are predicted to get 3-4 inches tonight and very cold weather tomorrow. I tried not to whine about it. Am such a spoiled baby when it comes to inconvenience. However, so far I can say my worst day RVing is better than a good day at work. But they have to pull Whimsy into their shop tomorrow to begin work on the levelers and she has to have her slides in so she can fit through the big truck bay door. If there is snow piled up on the tops of the slideouts they can't be slid in. They are going to leave us indoors tomorrow because of the cold! So far no snow yet but I will pull in the slides tonight before bedtime just in case. That will make for some very cozy sleeping for me and the kids as our house shrinks to maybe less than half our regular volume. Well there's a first time for everything. Guess if we are going to be fulltimers we better be able to sleep with our slides in should the need arise again. This will be good practice.
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