Buster’s Spot Duncan, NC - Aug 19 - 22

Buster’s Spot Duncan, NC - Saturday, August 19, 2017
Morning 72 Degrees, Wind E at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 97%, mostly cloudy.

Rain last night, after dark there was a good two tenths of an inch of rain. Everything was dripping wet this morning.

New Inverter in place 

It did not take long to switch out the inverter as everything was prepared for this job. Last thing needed doing was loosening the ground wire off the old unit. I shut down the air conditioners then turned off power. Now disconnect the wires power in and the two power out circuits. Then it is lift the two fifty pound units, one out of the compartment and one back in. Reconnect the power in and power out, attach the ground wire and the battery cables. We are ready for power on and it took about a half of an hour in time. It was now up to seventy-nine degrees with clearing skies.  


Buster’s Spot Duncan, NC - Sunday, August 20, 2017
Morning 79 Degrees, Wind ESE at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 81%, sunny.

Everything is working as expected. Most noted was the power in green light on the control panel being illuminated. That is the first time since the power surge the power in light was illuminated.

Above Setup button is the power in Green light

I reconnected the refrigerator to its receptacle coming off the extension cord for the first time since July eighth, that is important and closing the cover outside the refrigerator. The house batteries are now being charged thru the inverter (and the solar panels).


Buster’s Spot Duncan, NC - Monday, August 21, 2017
Morning 70egrees, Wind variable, calm to 1 Mph, Humidity 97%, partly sunny with fog.
Afternoon 8 Degrees, Wind  at  to  Mph, Humidity %, .

Fogy starting the drive this morning but that cleared after an hour or so. Leaving about seven-thirty, we stayed off interstate ninety-five expecting too much traffic out there. We had picked a place for lunch and that was our drive to location. Taking the back roads over to US 1 heading south towards Columbia, South Carolina.

In the parking lot for the Eclipse viewing

After lunch we went outside to the parking lot for our viewing area, the restaurant parking lot. It was partly cloudy but it got worse to mostly cloudy at the total eclipse time. We were able to see and get pictures going to half way. After that it was only clouds and the change in daylight that was noticeable at the one hundred percent coverage, temperature cooled without the direct sunlight. After the total and decreasing there was a break in the clouds and we were able to view the moon passing the sun.

We tried to make a faster return but we ran into traffic on interstate twenty and ninety-five. We stopped in Florence, SC for gasoline and got back on ninety-five for a short way before getting off and going to the back roads for the rest of our return trip.


Buster’s Spot Duncan, NC - Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Morning 73 Degrees, Wind variable, calm to 1 Mph, Humidity 98%, overcast.

For my wife and I a rest day, that was a lot of miles in our trip to Columbia, SC and back to Buster.