{"id":15928,"date":"2012-10-31T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T01:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=15928"},"modified":"2016-09-18T20:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T17:49:05","slug":"solar-array-monitor-wonkiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/solar-array-monitor-wonkiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Array Monitor Wonkiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/croftsmexico.blogspot.ca\/2012\/10\/motorhome-is-back-home.html\">Croft&#8217;s troubles with his RV fridge<\/a> has reminded me that I forgot to share a rather amusing anecdote about my solar array monitor.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to check all my monitors and sensors two or three days a day, more when I&#8217;m boondocking, less when I&#8217;m on shore power. Last week, I paused to make lunch, checked my monitors, and everything looked good except that my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMGP1438.jpg\">solar array monitor<\/a> was flashing 6 volts and change.<\/p>\n<p>My first reaction was confusion. Then, I realised that 6 volts and change is half of 13 volts and change. So my monitor was only registering one of my batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Everything in the battery bank looked fine, but I was able to give the <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=15809\">new bolt<\/a> a couple more turns with a wrench. It&#8217;s so hard to get in there that I must have told myself, &#8220;Good enough&#8221; when I made the modification when I needed to put in just a bit more effort.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will be the last tweak, but it&#8217;s gratifying to know that, so far, I haven&#8217;t had any major corrections to make to my new system. I look forward to testing the inverter, which I will do on the journey from here back to Hampton Roads. If I have any concerns, I&#8217;ll have several weeks there to effect corrections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croft&#8217;s troubles with his RV fridge has reminded me that I forgot to share a rather amusing anecdote about my solar array monitor. I tend to check all my monitors and sensors two or three days a day, more when I&#8217;m boondocking, less when I&#8217;m on shore power. Last week, I paused to make lunch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,810,635,718,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-chambly","category-north-america","category-quebec","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}