It’s now September. The solar panel has kept the refrigerator running all season. On those rare days that the batteries were not at 100% by dusk, they were the next day. Most of these days have been since Labor Day. Seems there are more cloudy days and less hours of potential sunshine to boot. Soon, […]

We’re into the second week of our 2019 heat wave. They usually last about two weeks and it is forecast to break this coming week. I have found that overnight energy consumption has tripled during this period, presumably due to the refrigerator needing to run more to maintain temperature.  Before the heat wave, with much […]

A newly added 315 watt solar panel has enabled 24/7 refrigeration and always on wifi.  A Raspberry Pi computer, running Raspberian is keeping tabs and uploading images and telemetry to this web server!