Another Bit of Electricity Before Shelter In Place, one of the things that I regularly did, especially in the winter months was turn on… Continue reading “Another Bit of Electricity”…
Battery Backup: The Install As detailed in the previous post, we decide to forgo installing a big diesel generator to provide backup power and… Continue reading “Battery Backup: The Install”…
Battery Backup: Understanding the Pieces One of the annoying things about living halfway up a mountain is that we do lose power more often than… Continue reading “Battery Backup: Understanding the Pieces”…
Eating things one should not: Power Cords Continuing the them of the preceding post, living with two large parrots means sometimes things get eaten…. Shoes are a… Continue reading “Eating things one should not: Power Cords”…
No more static In addition to the race cars built here at Purgatory Auto Works and Dinosaur Farm, we, well really Agent Smith,… Continue reading “No more static”…
Gate Power (again) As mentioned in past posts, the main gate at Purgatory has been problematic. Several years ago a tree actually fell… Continue reading “Gate Power (again)”…
Getting Things Done Agent Smith posted a while back about the monument outlets inside and outside the great room and what a mess… Continue reading “Getting Things Done”…
Cooked Water….Heater Regular readers of the blog will know that last year one of our hot water heaters was on its way… Continue reading “Cooked Water….Heater”…
Fire in the hole Embedded in the floor of the ‘great room’ (and also outside, believe it or not) are a plethora of these… Continue reading “Fire in the hole”…
New Project: Utility Closet As we work our way down the list of things we need to address, the projects have become less dire… Continue reading “New Project: Utility Closet”…
If a tree falls on a power line, and nothing is connected to that power line…. Suffice to say there was much head scratching all around last week… Continue reading “If a tree falls on a power line,”…
Forgot nugget of PO Craptasm I’ve been doing some cleanup as a lot of times we upload images for a post and then forget about… Continue reading “Forgot nugget of PO Craptasm”…
We have pretty electrons now When we were in escrow and having inspections done, it was noted that the electrical service to the house was… Continue reading “We have pretty electrons now”…