Andy is planning to get up at 5 this morning so he can get to the land before the sun rises. It’s supposed to be a clear day, and it’s close to the shortest day of the year. He wants to measure the maximum power he can get from the photovoltaic arrays in the middle of winter. If it’s a clear day he’ll stay until the sun sets. He says if it’s cloudy he’ll come back earlier — disgruntled.
Here’s a March 2012 picture of the arrays:
His projects up on the land manage to keep him busy. Do you know of anyone else with unusual hobbies?
No. Not anywhere near as esoteric as this. My acquaintances and I are not in the same league!
Better Andy than us, right? 🙂
“photovoltaic arrays” This went over my head.
These are the panels for generating electricity, as opposed to the ones on the roof which are for heating water.
I wouldn’t ever say a “hobby” was unusual – just different, probably far more interesting than lots of other minor regular things.
If it keeps your mind and body active – even if neither appears to be happening that is how it should be.
Whether it’s glued to a good book, living a retired life of your own choosing, fixing his “array thingy”, working on your computer, or that matter taking strange classes at University 🙂
One might say blogging, replying to blogs, keeping in touch was unusual as well…
It’s about enjoying life in anyway you want…
Yay, hobbies, whichever we choose!
cathy’s last two lines said it all for me too! blogging and enjoying life anyway i choose!
what a luxury that is!
oh i so hope it was a nice sunny day for andy! xo
I agree. I love being retired, too!
Yes, Andy did have a sunny day. He was really dragging today, so I’m glad he got the information he wanted.
I don’t think so.
Would like to hear the results Andy got.
He says according to the microprocessor, the output of the arrays was about 27.1 kilowatt hours. That’s quite a bit. The trick now is to make most of it available to us. Using our present training batteries, the most we can store is one day is less than 10 kilowatt hours. He’s making the measurements to figure out a reasonable size for our final batteries.