New Solar

 

We spent Monday wandering around the Base shopping centre in Hamilton, while they worked on our van and truck. 

The truck now has a fancy gismo, so we can charge the van batteries as we go. On our roof we have another solar panel and everything appears to be working as normal at last. We ended up putting in 2 lithium batteries, in stead of the 4 gel ones we bought. They assure us we won't have to worry about batteries ever again. One would hope so at the price. Luckily they had $600 off each battery, so that was a good thing.

We went to see a movie on Monday too. It's called “The Bodyguard's Hitman's Wife”. It's a sequel to “The Bodyguard and the Hitman”. The language was appalling, but it was quite funny. The added advantage was, we got to sit down for a couple of hours. We aren't made to wander around shopping centres. It is hard work and a bit boring.

We were going to come back to Matamata on Monday night, but it was 6 o'clock before they finished and we had had enough, so we stayed at a park over place in Hamilton. There was no work for  Eddie on Tuesday because of the wet weather, so we took our time and got back to Matamata at lunch time.

We are going to go off grid for a week and see how it all works.

Jolly cold this morning with a -1 temperature to start the day. The frost is melting now and the sun is shinning.