After that though, everything went fairly smoothly. It didn't warm up as quickly as I had hoped, so I did some chores. But around lunchtime it was warm enough to paint, so I got to work to on the trailer. Here is what I did yesterday (that I forgot to take a picture of).
It now looks like this. I got two coats of primer down, and it says to wait 24 hours before applying the final coat of paint. I only did the tops and sides, I will probably wait until it is a little dryer to do the underside.
After that, I went to give Anx a hand moving a couch. It dribbled a little on my way back, so I decided not to do any more painting, and instead went and put out my dunks. The back yard was mostly firm enough to walk through.
I got all the dunks that I had put out. As long as I got the timing right, this should drastically reduce the black fly and mosquito populations (the dunks are a larvacide).
I have been seeing spiders and moths starting to come out though, so I hope the timing is good. I might buy another sleeve and put them out in a few weeks just in case. I also saw this when I was walking around my yard, so I need to get the tractor working soon. The dandelions (the yellow specks) are coming out in force.
My creek. Walking around I also got a reminder that my shoes are very bald and slid a few times.
After that nice walk around my lot, I started doing some of my meal prep stuff for the week. I also tried to make some cheese crisps. The first batch came out kind of thin, and a touch extra crispy; you couldn't taste the peppers in them anymore (I used pepper jack cheese).
They still came out better than the second batch. The second batch I doubled the cheese blocks. That was an error. The recipe still needs some work. I have been buying them, but they are very expensive.
I also finished up my electrical calculations for the camper project. I ended up with my anticipated consumption is closer to 5.12kWh assuming I meal prep while I have grid power. That is half of what I used as a WAG.
If I plug in 5.5kWh (for a little buffer) consumption, with 10 panels I produce 4.8kWh on a cloudy day, meaning that even with just a 7kWh battery (5.6kWh taking into account 80% depth of discharge), I could last theoretically 8 cloudy days on solar alone with 10 panels. That isn't nearly as bad as I expected, and I might even be able to go back to 8 panels. I just need to run the tests to make sure the panels produce like I think they do.
For those curious, the complete detailed list of power changes from the 10kWh baseline are below.
- Likely to decrease
- Fridge - .63kWh decrease
- Water pump - .04kWh decrease
- Lights - 0.108kWh decrease
- Computer - 1.33kWh decrease
- Things eliminated
- Fans - 1.02kWh eliminated
- Currently I tend to have at least one fan running 24/7 due to poor circulation from heat pump.
- I also use a fan as my clothes dryer
- Dishwasher - 0.17kWh eliminated
- Washing Machine - 0.04kWh eliminated
- Water filter - 0.55kWh eliminated
- Air Filter - 0.37kWh eliminated
- Teapot - 0.04kWh eliminated
- Tea is a large drain on water and power, I will make it all beforehand and only at campsites.
- Drobo - 1.15kWh eliminated
- If I do bring media, it will be on flash drive or already on laptop.
- There are several other things that likely were in that 10kWh estimate that won't be used in the camper, like power tools, but since I can't reliably determine the proper deduction I have ignored them and will assume them as spare buffer space.
- Likely to increase
- TV (might be a monitor not TV, but TV worst case) - 0.53kWh added
- Toaster Oven - Expected 0 increase.
- It has already largely replaced my oven - Didn't own when power was taken from.
- For reference: it is a 1300W oven, Cooking 25min roast@400 measured 0.19kWh
- I should be able to reduce this to 0 by pre-cooking a week's worth of meals, which I already do today.
- Stay the same
- A/C - Camper units bigger, but will only run part time.
- Microwave
- Speakers
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