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Wayne.B

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:09:42 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:13:03 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 02:05:05 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:01:49 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

I've been working my butt off the last few weeks, digging edging
trenches for my wife's endless "garden areas," trimming trees, shaping
Nellie Hollies, spreading mulch, and this morning I dropped a dead 70'
tree behind the back yard and chainsawed it into 4' lengths I could dump
in the woods for the woodpeckers.

I am cutting up an old orange tree this weekend.

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I'm running in the wiring for a solar panel project on the trawer. The
goal is to have (8) 100 watt flexible panels on top of the flybridge
enclosure which will feed a MPPT charge controller in the engine room.
If it all turns out as planned we should be able to leave the boat at
anchor during the day without running the generator.

Sounds like the perfect application for solar. I like solar but I have
a hard time justifying it for most things. Although this orange tree
is not involved, most of this tear's tree trimming is to improve my
solar performance for the pool/spa collectors.

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We have fairly reasonable electric rates here and also high
consumption, all of which makes it harder to justify solar electric
for your house. When panel prices become comparable with shingles,
that will be the time to seriously think about it.

It's just about ideal for boats however, especially now that the price
of panels has come way down and efficiency has gone up. Sailors have
been using wind generators for a long time but they are noisy and high
maintenance. There have also been some notable accidents where people
have come into contact with the spinning blades.