Morning Sounds after a night of rains while living offgrid in the New Mexico desert.
We’ve had a few cloudy and windy days, but yesterday, we finally got a break, and it cleared up long enough to burn the tumbleweeds that were caught on the dog fence. We’re hoping that today brings some sunshine to charge the solar panels. Have a great day!
Tag: solar
Wind and sand storm
Sand, wind storm while living offgrid in the New Mexico desert.
Spring is the season for wind and sandstorms. This year is no different.
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Membership
Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center now is offering a membership.
As a member, you’ll gain access to exclusive members-only events, discounts on events and activities hosted by Ka-hoon, VIP access to official Ka-hoon-hosted events, and the opportunity to camp one night for free and receive a 10% discount on subsequent nights. We believe that becoming a member of our program will greatly enhance your experience with us. Thank you for considering this opportunity. free to contact us for further details.
https://plateauhamedecolquhoun.com/membership/
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Took night off to see Amigo The devil concert
Last night we took a break and went watched one of our favorite bands Amigo The Devil ! We would love to have Amigo come play here at Ka-Hoon Plateau Hame De Colquhoun ! Wouldn’t it be cool to see him play under the New Mexico skies, with mountains in background and the openness of the desert?! I think it would be..
I wasn’t able to get a recording of Flogging Molly as we ended up moving towards the back, we ran to the bathroom due to the crowd. (I don’thandle being crowded), and sadly I couldn’t see anything
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Crochet projects
A while back, @Advocatus Diaboli & The GLƁ asked me to make some items for his merch table. I had never crocheted anything other than blankets before, but Brent and AD (Advocatus) encouraged me to try. I succeeded and made the items AD asked for, as well as some for the Dusty Nail General Store. What do you think?
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8k Solar system
We have built two solar systems thus far. The first one consists of six 200-watt panels, a 24-watt 3k inverter, and two 100-Ah batteries. This 3k system powers Anne’s Lazy Daze Class C RV and a charging station inside the Grey trailer.
The second system is an 8k system with 12 200-watt panels, a 48-watt 8k inverter, and 12 250-Ah batteries. It is supposed to run the Stage, Music Studio, and Greenroom, but currently, our Class A Southwind RV is using it. The plan is to build the next system that’s six 500-watt panels, a 48-watt 5k inverter, and six 250-Ah batteries, which will run the RV and Grey trailer. At that point, the 3k system will solely power Anne’s RV.
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Warm weekend
It’s been a warm weekend, we didn’t get to start any of the projects, but fingers crossed this week is supposed to have a few nice days in a row. We plan on redoing the “hut” compost toilet. It’s a metal shed built out of used corgated metal we purchased on the Market place. The metal has nail holes that leaks when we get snow, heavy rain, and the wind blows right through. We will be sealing the holes and insulating it.
Today, Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band got to rehearse. They have been practicing at home and sounded pretty good. Or so I’ve been told. I was busy working on a commissioned crochet project thats on a time restraint so i wasn’t able to go and listen to the rehearsal.
Rv life with Furry kids
Friday January 12 outside temp 17 inside 33 and warming.
I didn’t want to get out of the nice warm bed this morning. But the dogs had other ideas. Dreugan sleeps at my feet, Amigo will sleep with us off and on throughout the night, he’ll also crawl into bed if he needs out.
Last night (so I thought, but really was this morning) Amigo had crawled into bed a couple times, gave me a kiss and laid down. We didn’t think much about it.
When one of the dogs does something wrong Dreugan a 110 lb dog ends up almost sitting on my head and won’t move. He did that to me this morning so I’m like “great what is wrong”, pulling myself out from under Dreugan as he won’t move all the while thinking of the worse. I did find a small mess that luckily was easy to clean up. I guess poor Amigo was asking to go out and we missed him telling us.
Having furry kids isn’t always easy.. it was 100% my fault. It’s all good now, mess cleaned up and santized. Now onto the rest of the day, drink some coffee, get ready for some campers that are coming in, Advocatus Diaboli wants to do a rehearsal, hopefully have time to work on a few projects.
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Back road home
Thursday January 11. Almost 4 pm outside temps 37 with 22 mph winds. Inside temp 65.
We had some confusion about yesterday’s post. We aren’t having issues running heat, only turning on a fan. The issue is we were worried about the solar batteries as it had seemed it shut down to often. But upon closer inspection batteries tested good. We just aren’t getting enough sun during the day.
We do not run heat at night as we don’t feel safe doing so even with smoke, CO2 detectors. We rather save the propane and not have ro worry. We both have no issues sleeping under our 3 blankets.
Please enjoy the video of us taking the back road home. There’s even a boat if the water ever gets up this high..
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Dealing with the solar
Wednesday, July 10th, again, the electric is out, so I’m not able to get accurate temps. Before electricity went off, it was 17 outside and 41 inside.
We figured out why, even with a clear day yesterday, the solar didn’t last. It did last until I turned on the heat and the fan just a few minutes ago .
One: We hadn’t adjusted the panels for winter. We hadn’t had issues, so we left them. Now we are debating if we want to adjust them to have to redo it in a few months, (It makes a huge difference in the sumner) or leave them.
Two: We aren’t getting long enough sun during the days. When we have multiple sunny days in a row, we have no issues. But one clear with cloudy days before and after is the issue.
I think we have figured out battery storage for the 5k solar we need to build. Now, we just need some nice days (without a lot of wind) or something else needing the time to get it done.
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