Day #3 come and gone!

Okay, it’s getting old. Yup, working 12 hour days is getting to me and I am ready for quiet. Yes, the generator has been a blessing, without we would have no power…but it is noisy and I worry during the night that it will run out of gas or just stop. But, it doesn’t…it is a hardy generator.

Day #3 was essentially without any problems or really any big issues at all. Just tedious running of wire…after measuring, cutting, stripping, crimping, and installing.

I have held off installing the wire duct (a.k.a. wire raceway) until the end. I wasn’t 100% sure of all of my wire run placement so I didn’t want to “redo” that. Also, if I have to do troubleshooting it is easier without all the wires hidden in the ducting.

So check out the “after” picture…a wire mess. But, it should should much neater when I am all done…you will just have to wait and see for that. So be patient 🙂

And FYI…I have been watching the Credit Suisse bank issues. They got a big bailout from the Swiss central bank. Some folks think that is great…I find it troubling.

In the solar shed today I finished up the AC side, wired up all of the arrays through the combiner box into the charge controllers. The hooked in the charge controllers through the circuit breaker disconnect box to the Victron Lynx PowerIn that I have converted into a fused distributor. And finally, started building my 2/0 cables for the Victron Lynx PowerIn to Inverter #1. Along the way I also added some ground wire as well; I am using 8AWG ground wire just to be on the say side.

Yes, my AC wiring from the inverters into the transfer switch is in flex-conduit.

Did you notice the 2 heavy wires that looks like black & red spiral? Yup, didn’t have black wire, just red. When it came time to run black wire…rather than run out and buy more expensive wire…just used the wire I had on hand and with black electrical tape identified it as the negative (black) side of the circuit.

At the beginning of Day #3 –

At the end of Day #3 –

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