Power Up

Around 8:00 am this morning, Chris (electrician) came to the front door and rang the bell. With the garage doors installed, he could not access the sunroom. I met him in back and opened the doors for him. He brought in his tool boxes and appeared to be going to work. About 30 minutes later, I went out to let him know that we had all the exterior wall sconces in the main house along with the ceiling fan. I never got the chance to tell him. Apparently, shortly after arriving, he hauled his tool boxes back out to his truck and departed. I can only assume he got called off for some other service call.

As I was looking out the front door to see if Chris's truck was gone, an Ameren truck drove up. It was a technician to install our new bi-directional power meter. It was a simple matter to make the replacement and it only took about 5 minutes. We did not even lose power.

I sent an email to Eric telling him the meter had been installed and the red tag is on the box. He soon responded saying he would have Jack come by and activate the system. Jack did arrive a little before noon and worked on the activation for several hours. By the time he departed around 3:00 pm, we were making power. With the heavy rain, it was not much power, but it is working. Jack also said he would be the person to move the inverter rack post. As opposed to the message we got from Eric yesterday, saying it would be three weeks before they could move the post, Jack said he hoped to be back tomorrow to get it done.

Here is our power generation for day one. Not too impressive, but it has been raining all day. We peaked out at around 2 kw at 5:00 pm. The system is rated for 9.6 kw.