{"id":478,"date":"2010-06-24T18:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-09-23T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T18:21:09","slug":"powersys-2-0-the-finishing-details-are-endless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Powersys 2.0 \u2013 the finishing details are endless\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_479\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-21.59.46.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-479 \" title=\"2010-06-24 21.59.46\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-21.59.46-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desulfators, catastrophic fuses, buss bars, oh my!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Delays.<\/p>\n<p>Eight months and fifteen thousand dollars later, I am still not finished.<\/p>\n<p><em>Meh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s landmark (in lieu of project completion) was the final interconnection and torquing of the battery bank itself.  With no charging in about a year and prolonged exposure to the elements, bank voltage was measured at 49.63V, the rough equivalent of 12.4V on a twelve-volt system.  Which really ain&#8217;t too shabby, and utterly miraculous given the combination of neglect and rough-housing these things have endured since coming into my ownership.  But that&#8217;s all I had to show for the effort: four significant digits.  An electrochemical &#8220;Hello, world!&#8221;  The first clumsily-uttered syllables of a precocious infant.  Proof of life inside that unbelievably massive, toxic aquarium, the soft machine containing (at full charge) nearly one-quarter megawatt-hour.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antony_Hegarty\">Antony &amp; the Johnsons<\/a> should sing a ballad in homage to this monstrosity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-22.00.14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-481\" title=\"2010-06-24 22.00.14\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-22.00.14-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> Tonight, after escaping from the afternoon heat for many hours in the *other* container, I worked by flashlight, slowly pushing closer to completion.  Whatever criticisms I may hurl at myself publicly, I am trying for the first time in my life to actually do everything right on this project.  Every little step calls for introspection, &#8220;what-if&#8221; contingency anticipation, reconsideration of the previous three steps, and painfully cautious execution.  Usually I just rush through things, after the motto, &#8220;We&#8217;ll fix it in the mix.&#8221;  The stakes are too high now.  There might be a caustic sink hole in the ground to show for miscalculation.  Or permanent blindness.  Or worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-22.00.06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-480\" title=\"2010-06-24 22.00.06\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-22.00.06-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll pull down the protective plywood sheets I put up this morning, connect the desulfators and then figure out what to do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desulfators, catastrophic fuses, buss bars, oh my! Delays. Eight months and fifteen thousand dollars later, I am still not finished. Meh. &#8212;- Last night&#8217;s landmark (in lieu of project completion) was the final interconnection and torquing of the battery bank itself. With no charging in about a year and prolonged exposure to the elements, bank [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-jeus","category-images","category-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chasterus.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}