Have now got the water collection system for the garden at FarFar Away working. Didn't help that I rigged up the switch panel the wrong way round.
Will probably need to do it in two stages though. The first pump cannot lift the water to the top of a two tanks from where it is next to shed #2. It can do to the first level. From there I will need to rig another pump and float switch to get it up to the second level.
Still have to rig the solar panels to recharge the batteries. Need to make a sturdy frame to prevent them getting lifted off in the high winds. So far the batteries are 1 x 100Ah + 1 x 85Ah connected in parallel. May upgrade in the future to 2 banks of batteries.
Trying to find a proper set of outdoor lights to run off 12V. Not proving to be easy. So far haven't found anything which says 'buy me'. Might have to bodge something myself which could be dangerous and or expensive. What I really would like is a chandelier for the middle of the gazebo next to the dojo. I would like to have spotlights around the edge as well.
Have started to remove the flooring in the dojo to gain access to the sub-floor to see the state of the joists. It is a solid wood floor and took me an hour to remove one strip using a power saw. Now have to come up with a system for marking the pieces so they can go back down in the correct order. Part of the issue is that there doesn't seem to be much of an expansion gap around the edge.
Will probably need to do it in two stages though. The first pump cannot lift the water to the top of a two tanks from where it is next to shed #2. It can do to the first level. From there I will need to rig another pump and float switch to get it up to the second level.
Still have to rig the solar panels to recharge the batteries. Need to make a sturdy frame to prevent them getting lifted off in the high winds. So far the batteries are 1 x 100Ah + 1 x 85Ah connected in parallel. May upgrade in the future to 2 banks of batteries.
Trying to find a proper set of outdoor lights to run off 12V. Not proving to be easy. So far haven't found anything which says 'buy me'. Might have to bodge something myself which could be dangerous and or expensive. What I really would like is a chandelier for the middle of the gazebo next to the dojo. I would like to have spotlights around the edge as well.
Have started to remove the flooring in the dojo to gain access to the sub-floor to see the state of the joists. It is a solid wood floor and took me an hour to remove one strip using a power saw. Now have to come up with a system for marking the pieces so they can go back down in the correct order. Part of the issue is that there doesn't seem to be much of an expansion gap around the edge.
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