Tag: Electrical
In the Trench, Part 2
Carrying on from the last post, in early 2023 we needed to fix the run between the wellhead and tank. Because we live halfway up…
Some Better Lights
As noted in past posts, the previous owners of our house had questionable taste. Not only were the original doors mentioned in the last post…
Sculpture Highlights
(and better gate power!) To really spice things up, this past November we had the electrical situation at the main gate sorted professionally. Regular readers…
Making the Great Room Great, Step Eight: Wall Lighting
When we had the main electric panel redone, we decommissioned the monument outlets in the great room and outside areas. We knew there had been…
Long Lines
So this post is more documentary for our own purposes rather than entertainment for readers. During the rainy week when the power wall was being…
Another Bit of Electricity
Before Shelter-In-Place, something I regularly did, especially in the winter months, was turn on the courtyard lights when Agent Smith was nearing home (yea for…
Battery Backup: Hosed
The one casualty of the power wall project was the post that held the reel for a water hose we use a lot–sadly, the post…
Battery Backup: The Install
As detailed in the previous post, we decided to forgo installing a big diesel generator for backup power and opted for a power wall instead.…
Battery Backup: Understanding the Pieces
One of the annoying things about living halfway up a mountain is that we lose power more often than if we lived in a normal…
Eating things one should not: Power Cords
Continuing the theme of the preceding post, living with two large parrots means sometimes things get eaten. Shoes are a frequent target. I have a…
No more static
In addition to the race cars built at Purgatory Auto Works and Dinosaur Farm, we–well, Agent Smith really–work on our daily drivers as well. While…
Gate Power (again)
As mentioned in past posts, the main gate at Purgatory has been problematic. Several years ago a tree fell and snapped the line feeding the…
Getting Things Done
Agent Smith posted a while back about the monument outlets inside and outside the great room and what a mess they were. Three of the…
Cooked Water Heater
Last year one of our water heaters was on its way out so we replaced it. Things seemed fine until one morning in March when…
Fire in the hole
Embedded in the floor of the great room (and outside it, believe it or not) are a plethora of these Steel City (now Thomas &…
New Project: Utility Closet
As we work our way down the list of things we need to address, the projects have become less dire and more detail-oriented. Instead of…
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 when a tree decided to fall…
Forgotten nugget of PO craptasm
I’ve been doing some cleanup, as we upload images for a post and then forget about them a lot of the time. I try to…
We have pretty electrons now
When we were in escrow and having inspections done, the electrical service to the house was noted to only have 175 amps. For out here…