Day three!!!

Woke up rarin’ to go!!   Beat the alarm, and was sorta wired BEFORE I got the coffee goin’.    Felt flippin AWESOME!!! 

Interestingly enough, it felt like time was slowed way down.   My mind was moving so fast, my time perception was thrown way off.   Felt like I had done 3 hours worth of work and only an hour had passed.    Crazy eh?

Energy is lagging a bit though.   I was worn out by 1pm.   Ok, not ‘worn out’ but I was feeling a little drawn thin in energy levels.    Expected, yes.  No headache today.    No cheating today, but I can say this: driving past BurgerKing was torture!!!  Those whoppers smelled so damned good to me today.    NOT YET!!!  A few more days of this yet.    And my ‘re-feeding’ meal will be stuff I prepare, fresh stuff, GOOD stuff, not fast food loaded with God only knows what,,,

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Batteries came in early, around 10ish.   Looked good, not dents and banged up boxes.     Came home and did that install, which was easy-peasy UNTIL I had to decode the user manual to set the controller to Lithium batts.    Chinesium translator please,,,    Once you figure out what the Chicoms meant by their codes within the controller (it has only so many charaters it can display so they ‘code’ everything.) it was pretty easy.   

Did everything acccording to directions, power is back on the house, controller is charging the batts, and life looks good.

Total weight of these batteries is 97#

The ones I took to the recycler after the fact. 219#  

HUGE difference!!!    Fact: I know the weight listed in the buy page, but when I picked up that first box, I almost launched the thing.    Was totally expecting the weight of a L/A FLooded type.   And these won’t gas off like an L/A will: less corrosion on the terminals.    So far the house seems to like the new addition.   I will watch closely for a couple months to see what, if any, quirks these have.  

Pros: 10 year estimated lifespan vs 4-6 for L/A’s, a proper charge controller can push those lifespans to maximum. (or even beyond in some cases, as I found out with my first set of L/A’s)

Cons: no current recycling system in place.   The guy/gal that comes up with that is gonna make BANK. 

Price wise, the units I bought are similar in cost to L/A’s.   You can buy more expensive units, and they might even be better made, better materials, or something.   I ain’t made of money and those ‘battle tested’ models start at OMG and just go up.    And looking at the numbers on the units, the only difference I could spot was on the price tag.    I can’t say one way or the other, just my observation without hands on useage.   Until I could run seperate tests, I say, go with what the pocket book allows: and thats just what I did.

For the curious, I don’t run a ton of power needs.   4-100Ah batteries gets me through fairly well.  The only times I have had issue was when those batteries failed in some way.  Like the recently replaced ones.  Looked good, measured good, but certainly were not holding 100Ah worth of juice. That I lost power one night after a minimal use day told me they were failing and it was just a matter of time before total failure.   So here I am, a bit more in debt, but the electric bill is paid up for a few more years.

tomorrow is hump day.   one day closer to the weekend.   One day closer to the end of this fast.   One day closer to what is probably going to be the best tasting meal I have ever had.  (So others have said. And I can see that with the “hunger makes the best spice” meme.)  

More laters.