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errantember ([personal profile] errantember) wrote2006-08-22 05:33 pm

The rewards of going solar.

So I'm packing for Burning Man, down to the wire, with the Community Truck being loaded in slightly over 24 hours. My Foot Photography Booth (now a communications pod of the Foot People of the planet Pedon) is running through a 12V charge controller. I didn't intend to use my solar panels this year, I was only using the controller for the low-voltage cut-off feature so my batteries don't get sucked into oblivion ("Please, Vivian! Please!") However, at the very last minute, I realized that 1) My batts may not last more than a day without a recharge and 2) All I had to do go solar was simply plug my panels into the controller. So I did. And not *only* is the entire system Off the Grid, but wrapped around one of the terminals of the panels was my *Burning Man Checklist from last year!*

Fuck yeah. The Universe rewards.